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I noticed that the ssh server kept asking for my password, so I opened a ticket to have it reset. A few hours later (the efficiency of a helpdesk a continent away) I get a new password. So I log in (situation recreated at home):
I'm slightly taken aback and try:
Talking with a unix SE and looking at the ldap we see the 'password reset procedure' at work: to reset the password of user pvaneynd do: remove the user and then recreate the user and force a password change on login. The small detail that your UID changes and that you lose your home directory is just a bonus.
A bit later the SE told me that he tried to clean up the mess but his script failed because of embedded ^H's in the usernames. Wow, now that is a first for me :-(.
Last login: Thu Oct 5 20:53:21 2006 from 192.168.10.36 Could not chdir to home directory /home/pvaneynd: Permission denied -bash: /home/pvaneynd/.bash_profile: Permission denied pvaneynd@frost:/$
I'm slightly taken aback and try:
pvaneynd@frost:/$ ls -ld /home/pvaneynd/ drwxr-x--- 56 1302 users 4096 Oct 5 13:02 /home/pvaneynd/ pvaneynd@frost:/$ id uid=8493(pvaneynd) gid=50(users) groups=45(networking),20(users)
Talking with a unix SE and looking at the ldap we see the 'password reset procedure' at work: to reset the password of user pvaneynd do: remove the user and then recreate the user and force a password change on login. The small detail that your UID changes and that you lose your home directory is just a bonus.
A bit later the SE told me that he tried to clean up the mess but his script failed because of embedded ^H's in the usernames. Wow, now that is a first for me :-(.
