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Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator chfn: PAM authentication failed

Posted on 15. August 2008

Problem:

  1. If you add a new user this Messages is shown, cause root is locked
  2. Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator
    chfn: PAM authentication failed
    adduser: `/usr/bin/chfn james’ returned error pre 1. Exiting

Solution:

  1. sudo passwd --unlock root
  2. sudo usermod --lock root

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