> > 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... -- [email protected] mailing list
