On Thursday 28 April 2005 08:46 pm, Claude Jones wrote:
> Having a bunch of issues brought on perhaps, by installing kde-redhat in
> level 5, but that's another story. One thing that is happenning that's
> baffling me is that my root password keeps expiring. Apparently, that's
> what's happenning as when I try to su - from a terminal, that's what the
> message says. Anywhere else I have to put in root password, the box just
> returns an error about 'wrong password'. I know how to go to single user
> and reset it, but I just did that three hours ago, and it has expired
> again! Can someone help? What can I do to stop this? I did open Kuser after
> the last reset and root was set to never expire, but two hours later, it
> has.
> --
> Claude Jones
> Bluemont, VA, USA
Have you checked to see if the password is being shadowed.
Have you set chattr for /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow ?
is selinux enabled ?
SHADOW(5)
NAME
shadow - encrypted password file
DESCRIPTION
shadow contains the encrypted password information for userâs accounts
and optional the password aging information. Included is
Login name
Encrypted password
Days since Jan 1, 1970 that password was last changed
Days before password may be changed
Days after which password must be changed
Days before password is to expire that user is warned
Days after password expires that account is disabled
Days since Jan 1, 1970 that account is disabled
An account is considered to be inactive and is disabled if the password
is not changed within the specified number of days after the password
expires. An account will also be disabled on the specified day
regardless of other password expiration information.
This information supercedes any password or password age information
present in /etc/passwd.
This file must not be readable by regular users if password security is
to be maintained.
FILES
/etc/passwd - user account information
/etc/shadow - encrypted user passwords
--
John H Ludwig
Common sense is so rare, why do they call it common!!!
Manual customization of this file is not recommended,
BUT WILL BE DONE!!!
