[tech] su-ing on mermaid

[Nick Bannon]

Careful with password expiry, people.

su suddenly stopped working on mermaid yesterday - I thought it was the
password itself (it looked different to other machines, but it was
probably just set separately).

Today it seems to be password expiry.

We had an /etc/shadow entry like ;
root:xxxxxxxxxxxxx:10646:0:180:14:60::

I killed that for all the accounts in the FMS shadow.template and for
root in the /etc/shadow. An FMS update should cure things.

Nick.

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