I remember running into this on a Red Hat box a while back. I added the user from the command line, but the account was disabled after one day. I fixed it by running the graphical redhat-config-users tool. on the account settings tab for the account, you can disable the experation date (witch was always set to tomorrow). Sorry I don't know how to do this from the shell though. But this may help to google in the right direction... Chris Frederick Steve Westlie wrote: >Hi TCLUG. > >Last year, on May 16th, you posted a question on a Linux forum about >passwords: > >****************** >"Hello, > >I have a user on my system whose password expires after one day when it's >changed by root. I've tried setting the password as root, and then logging >into the system and changing the password as the user, but it still expires >after one day. Anyone have any advice on where to look first?" > >***************** > >It so happens that I am experiencing the same thing. In my case, the users >affected by this had their primary group changed from the default. > >Any luck??? > >Thanks for any advise. > >Steve > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list