Re: Cron jobs and root account locked on Lenny

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@2008.43-1.org>]

Hi,

Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:

> Interesting, the manpage passwd(1) says that 'passwd -l' should also set 
> account expiry to 1, but it doesn't. Either passwd or the manpage is 
> wrong, so I think this should be reported against the package passwd.

It sets a value to "1" in my /etc/shadow when I last used it.  I assume
that would be the expiry field?

I've got passwd 1:4.1.1-2 installed (from testing).

Regards,
Ansgar

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