root account expired error.

From: Rod Person (opensourcebeef_at_hotpop.com)
Date: 07/31/03

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    I don't know what happened, but here it is.

    I added a new user. After the adduesr finished I got an error that the
    directory /var/spool/mail/newuser could not be created. That seems to
    have hosed something, because after that another user account's password
    was lost/changed. I used passwd command to fix that.

    Now when I long in as my normal user account and try to su to root I get
    the error message "sorry account expired". I can still long in as root,
    I just can't su to root. So how do I unexpire the root account. 

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Rod
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