root account expired --help

Ed Wilts ewilts at ewilts.org
Mon Aug 16 18:45:13 UTC 2004


On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 11:06:43AM -0700, James D. Parra wrote:
> What a nice way to start a Monday. Tried to log in as root and received,
> "Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator".  Any
> way to correct this?

Log into a user with sudo access, and the use usermod to change the
root's expiration flag.

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
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