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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Expired password
  • Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:36:29 +1300

Message from Steven
===================
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




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