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shadow package

  1. Bug #238755
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 238755

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Andreas Simon (andreas-w-simon) wrote : Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user

Yes, this is an configuration issue. By default Ubuntu's root account is disabled and chfn should surely handle this configuration and just work. But it does not.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo tells to execute 'passwd -l root' to "re-disable" the root account. As I understand it this is Ubuntu's default configuration and chfn fails to work with it.