Red Hat password ageing and how to turn it off
I had a customer complain of this error when trying to become ‘oracle’ user on a Red Hat 4.4 server:
[user@redhat ~]$ sudo su – oracle
Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator
/bin/su: incorrect password
The cause was that the password for the oracle account had expired (nothing to do with the user’s own account). The chage command can be used to list account expiry and password ageing information: Continue reading