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niclas@bubba:~$ su -
Password:
You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced)
su: Authentication token is no longer valid; new one required.
Sorry.
niclas@bubba:~$
That means that I can't become root. What can I do?
I used the last img-file from http://update.excito.net/install/latest/
But I "solved" the problem by reinstalling it again. Would be good to know what I could have done for this error to appear though so it won't happen again.
That sounds very strange. What that error message says is essentially that roots password has expired. Which it really should not have done. We use the default settings which should give 99999 days before any user should have to change password, including root.
If this should happen again it would be interesting to see the contents of file /etc/shadow. And espescially roots entry in it.
After installing, the date of the bubba is always (as it seems) 1 January 1970. I manually updated the time through the webinterface after setting the root password. 99999 days should be something like 273 years so this shouldn't matter, but maybe it does anyway?
Yeah, that is most likely the problem. The installer uses the network for getting the current time. And if that fails you will get a date like that. And its most likely the problem. You get a date before the latest password change.
But in your case. Did the problem go away when you set a correct date?
No, the problem went away when I reinstalled again. The problem probably came when I set the correct date. I'm not sure about that though because I didn't notice it directly after