account disabled every morning

[Steve G. Casino]

I have a user account which gets disabled every morning. Does anybody have an idea why this is happening and how to fix this?

Thanks in advance!

[Simon Hargrave · Accepted solution]

My guess would be there's a job "somewhere" (perhaps on another unix box, or a windows nt script) that ftp's (or telnets perhaps) as that user regularly overnight. It uses an "old" password so locks the account out. You reset the password, it works until the script runs and locks it out again!

Check syslog for ftp auth errors, or other failed logins.

[Steve G. Casino]

Wow that was very fast! I checked the syslog and found a job which FTPs to the HP9000 every hour...too bad the owner of the account is not aware of such a job.


Thanks Simon!