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10-26-2004, 11:59 PM
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| Registered User  Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Greenville, NC
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| only account has expired??? I'm a new user to Linux, got bored and decided to download Red Hat 9.0 and just installed it on a spare harddrive. After doing a few updates i was just looking around at the features trying to learn how to navigate it. I don't know if i did anything to the user accounts or not, but i'm pretty sure i didn't apply anything while looking around in there. Anyway, my problem is now when i load up linux, when i get to the login screen and enter my only user name and password that has been made, it says that my password has expired and I should contact my adminstrator!.... how can that be if i'm the only account!? more importantly how can i login without having to reload that OS? thanks for any help! 
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10-27-2004, 12:08 AM
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after you successfully logeed in do : # passwd "username-that-expired" ( without " " of course ) cheers
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10-27-2004, 12:12 AM
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| sorry i'm a noob with linux, how do you login as root 
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10-27-2004, 12:33 AM
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| when it asks you for username type: root when it asks for root password enter the password for root (you do remember it ... right?)
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10-27-2004, 10:56 AM
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| oooooooohh ok... thanks! 
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