> > Can you log in as the user at all?  Or are you
> > trying only from su?
> 
> only from su...

You should try to log in as the user specifically to ensure that the login
is not expired.

> don't know what this means. After boot
> I login as user or root. If, as user, I enter su, I
> get error, acct expired. Am I missing something, some
> gentoo-specific method here? When I ran slack or
> redhat I would su as user($), enter a password, and be
> presented with a root prompt(#) on the next line with
> all the privileges of root at my disposal.

Now I'm wondering what you're trying to do.  Are you trying to su to a user
or su to root?  If root, then it's more serious because root is never
supposed to expire.

> > Are there any messages in /var/log/messages (or your
> > equivalent) that might
> > apply?
> 
> almost positive, no.

Hmm, I get all kinds of messages for login failures; it's the only way to
handle auditing...


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