Re: debbie is missing!

[Dan Brosemer <odin@svartalfheim.net>]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:43:41AM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:40:07AM -0400, Kathie Brosemer wrote:
> > Hi, Debbie cannot log in this morning.  She had reset her password
> > according to the new rules.  She is on Luke.
> > 
> > I tried to reset her password from superuser privileges, while logged in on
> > Biggs, and received the following message:
> > 
> > Failed to find entry for user debbie.
> > Failed to modify password entry for user debbie
> > 
> > please advise.
> 
> Eeep.
> 
> From root@obiwan.cleannorth.org  Thu Apr 11 03:02:56 2002
>  Subject: Removing debbie
> 
> Make the account again.  I'll restore her files.

Well, the normal flushuser script that deletes accounts when they expire
deleted her, not the script that cleans up accounts with bad passwords.  So
it looks like her expiry date was just set wrong when her account was
created.

-Dan

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