new user account expired

[Tommi Huttunen]

I created new user account in Ubuntu 12.04 server. Everything went fine, except that I couldn't login GUI or ssh.
After searching hours and hours a solution, I ran a command chage -l "username". I found that new user account will be expired January 1, 1970. I ran a command chage -E -1 "username" and now account never expires. So the default expiration date for the new user account was January 1 1970.

[Tommi Huttunen (tommi-huttunen)]

This applies to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server too.

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[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

What process did you use to create the new user account? The exact command you used would be quite helpful.

[Tommi Huttunen (tommi-huttunen)]

I created it with adduser as root user.
Then gave password.
Then chown -R username:username /home/username
Then chmod -R 700 /home/username

This happened first time in Ubuntu 10.04
Then I upgraded to 12.04, because I thought that it would solve the
problem, but it didn't.
Somewhere I found the solution: chage -E -1 username and user account never
expires.

t. Tommi Huttunen

2012/10/23 Brian Murray <email address hidden>

> What process did you use to create the new user account? The exact
> command you used would be quite helpful.
>
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> Bug description:
> I created new user account in Ubuntu 12.04 server. Everything went fine,
> except that I couldn't login GUI or ssh.
> After searching hours and hours a solution, I ran a command chage -l
> "username". I found that new user account will be expired January 1, 1970.
> I ran a command chage -E -1 "username" and now account never expires. So
> the default expiration date for the new user account was January 1 1970.
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