Can't login to machine any more!

[Micheal Patterson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Trey Sizemore" <trey at fastmail.fm>
To: "Micheal Patterson" <micheal at tsgincorporated.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: Can't login to machine any more!


> Micheal Patterson wrote:
>
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: "Trey Sizemore" <trey at fastmail.fm>
> >To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> >Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 6:10 PM
> >Subject: Can't login to machine any more!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Just recently I can no longer login to my machine. When I get to the gdm
> >>screen and enter my username and password I get:
> >>
> >>"The system administrator has disabled your account."
> >>
> >>This happens with both my normal account and THE ROOT ACCOUNT!
> >>
> >>Is this recoverable and, if so, how?
> >>
> >>Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >You should be able to boot up in single user mode and correct this
problem.
> >I'm not sure what would cause it though.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Logged into single user mode and ran:
>
> #grep root /etc/passwd
>
> It showed the shell to be /bin/sh
>
> Did a reboot and tried to login with gdm again and got the same message.

Sorry, missed the gdm part. Thought you were locked out of shell.

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Micheal Patterson
Network Administration
TSG Incorporated
405-917-0600