pam_acct_mgmt(): user account has expired (was Re:Login Problem)

[Larry Hammer]

On Saturday, March 06, 2004 5:42:56 PM Barry Hawkins 
<ly5t5 at allthingscomputed.com> wrote:

On Mar 4, 2004, at 1:33 PM, Gerard Seibert wrote:

> I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1 - RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004
>
> It seems that I can no longer log into my system. Upon boot-up, the
> usually login appears. I enter my normal login and then my password. I 
> am
> then greeted with this error message:
>
> BudMan login: pam_acct_mgmt(1): user account has expired
> Login Incorrect.
>
> Shortly afterwards I receive these error messages:
>
> BudMan cron[538] _secure_path: /usr/home/ges/.login_conf is not owned 
> by
> root
>
> The last error message will repeat with the number getting 
> progressively
> higher.
>
> This is a fresh install of FreeBSD. The only thing I added was KDE 3.2
> today. Can anyone tell me what has happened and how do I get back into 
> my
> system?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Gerard Seibert
> gerard-seibert at rcn.com
>
Gerard,
        I am having a similar issue logging in on 5.2.1-RC2, and it seems to 
have happened around the time I added a user and some groups using the 
KUser utility in KDE.  All accounts, including root, are "expired".  My 
error message is:

        login: pam_acct_mgmt(): user accound has expired
        Login Incorrect.

Then, a bit later, I receive messages like the following:

        kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0008 != 0000)
        kernel: psmintr: discard a byte(1)

        On a side note, the message really does display "accound" instead of 
"account"; it's not a typo of mine.  Searches on the following phrases 
within the questions and newbies mailing lists produced no leads for me 
to research:
        'pam_acct_mgmt(): user accound has expired'
        'pam_acct_mgmt():'
        'psmintr'

Regards,
-- 
Barry C. Hawkins
All Things Computed
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Sunday, March 07, 2004 1:44:11 PM

That is exactly what I was doing when this problem occurred. I am going
to the KDE site and report this problem. It might be a bug of some sort.
You might want to do the same if you have not all ready.

As a side bar, in the master.passwd file, near the top, is an entry
that includes: "Charlie &". Is it possible, or should I say, advisable
to change that entry manually or just leave it as is?

Thanks!

Gerard Seibert
gerard-seibert at rcn.com



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I had a similar problem  when I upgraded from FBSD 4.9/KDE 3.14  to 4-stable/ 
KDE 3.2 ie:
I could not su from a console window it would give me the account expired msg 
and if tried to change consoles by <ctrl>,<alt>, <Fx> I could not log in as 
root
I could login as root from kdm 
I used Kuser and reset the passwords for root and my other 2 users and it 
started working again, I can su and login to other consoles as expected
dont know if this helps as I am a newbee and most of the stuff that people are 
asking about is either way over my head or the answer I know comes directly 
from the hand book.

Larry Hammer