Re: pam_acct_mgmt(): user account has expired (was Re: Login

From: Larry Hammer (larrykh465_at_SoftHome.net)
Date: 03/08/04

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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 01:06:41 -0800

    On Saturday, March 06, 2004 5:42:56 PM Barry Hawkins
    <ly5t5@allthingscomputed.com> wrote:

    On Mar 4, 2004, at 1:33 PM, Gerard Seibert wrote:

    > I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1 - RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004
    >
    > It seems that I can no longer log into my system. Upon boot-up, the
    > usually login appears. I enter my normal login and then my password. I
    > am
    > then greeted with this error message:
    >
    > BudMan login: pam_acct_mgmt(1): user account has expired
    > Login Incorrect.
    >
    > Shortly afterwards I receive these error messages:
    >
    > BudMan cron[538] _secure_path: /usr/home/ges/.login_conf is not owned
    > by
    > root
    >
    > The last error message will repeat with the number getting
    > progressively
    > higher.
    >
    > This is a fresh install of FreeBSD. The only thing I added was KDE 3.2
    > today. Can anyone tell me what has happened and how do I get back into
    > my
    > system?
    >
    > Thanks in advance!
    >
    > Gerard Seibert
    > gerard-seibert@rcn.com
    >
    Gerard,
            I am having a similar issue logging in on 5.2.1-RC2, and it seems to
    have happened around the time I added a user and some groups using the
    KUser utility in KDE.  All accounts, including root, are "expired".  My
    error message is:

            login: pam_acct_mgmt(): user accound has expired
            Login Incorrect.

    Then, a bit later, I receive messages like the following:

            kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0008 != 0000)
            kernel: psmintr: discard a byte(1)

            On a side note, the message really does display "accound" instead of
    "account"; it's not a typo of mine.  Searches on the following phrases
    within the questions and newbies mailing lists produced no leads for me
    to research:
            'pam_acct_mgmt(): user accound has expired'
            'pam_acct_mgmt():'
            'psmintr'

    Regards, 

    -- 
Barry C. Hawkins
All Things Computed
site: www.allthingscomputed.com
weblog: www.yepthatsme.com
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Sunday, March 07, 2004 1:44:11 PM
That is exactly what I was doing when this problem occurred. I am going
to the KDE site and report this problem. It might be a bug of some sort.
You might want to do the same if you have not all ready.
As a side bar, in the master.passwd file, near the top, is an entry
that includes: "Charlie &". Is it possible, or should I say, advisable
to change that entry manually or just leave it as is?
Thanks!
Gerard Seibert
gerard-seibert@rcn.com
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I had a similar problem  when I upgraded from FBSD 4.9/KDE 3.14  to 4-stable/ 
KDE 3.2 ie:
I could not su from a console window it would give me the account expired msg 
and if tried to change consoles by <ctrl>,<alt>, <Fx> I could not log in as 
root
I could login as root from kdm 
I used Kuser and reset the passwords for root and my other 2 users and it 
started working again, I can su and login to other consoles as expected
dont know if this helps as I am a newbee and most of the stuff that people are 
asking about is either way over my head or the answer I know comes directly 
from the hand book.
Larry Hammer
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