Group issue

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Thursday 01 April 2004 02:28 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I'm running RH9 on my main computer.  I am the root user and there are
> two personal accounts on it.  Yesterday I tried to change the two
> personal accounts so that they would be in the same group - the users
> group.  The next time I tried to log into my personal account, it gave
> me the message "The system administrator has disabled your account.
> What did I do wrong, and is there any particular file I need to delete
> to get past this save deleting all the . hidden files and folders?  I
> created a new directory and copied the files into it and deleted and
> reissued the accounts, but if this happens again, what should I do?

What Redhat version do you use?

When you change the group do you use redhat-config-users GUI program? 

I think there's a stupid bug in that program, at least in RH 9 on my machine. 
When you do any sort of modification on any user, the Password expiration 
date for that user is automatically checked and set to today. You have to 
explicitly uncheck it before you hit OK for it not to set your password 
expiration date to today. 

This happened to me before, and I got the same message when trying to login 
with my personal account the next time. I fixed it by runing the 
redhat-config-users (as root), doble click on my user account, and uncheck 
the Password Expiration thing. 

If this is what happened to you, could you try to reproduce it and let me 
know? I'll check also if this is the case with Fedora Core 1, and if it's 
reproducible, maybe we should file a bug, cause I don't see anything about 
this in the bugzilla.

RDB

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Reuben D. Budiardja
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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