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Message from Steven
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Ron wrote:
>
> With the new year, I suddenly found my [user] password 
> doesn't work anymore: password expired !  Obviously I 
> had set it to expire at the end of 2009.
> 
> I have (as root) tried using ADDUSER to re-write the 
> expiry date, with same username and password, but it 
> still won't let me in as my non-root user.
> 
>  I am using BL2.
> 
>  How do I go about getting my tenure as a user extended ?

The command you want is: usermod
Alternatively, you could edit the /etc/shadow file by hand.

Cheers,
Steven