On Thu April 28 2005 10:03 pm, jludwig wrote: > 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. > > Have you checked to see if the password is being shadowed. > I don't know what this means - I guess more reading.. > Have you set chattr for /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow ? > see above > is selinux enabled ? > yes - all settings are at default > 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!!! -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
