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How to reactivate expired account in Linux as a root user
I am an administrator of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system.

Now one account expired. I wonder how to reactivate the account.


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Maybe you could try changing the expire field in the shadow file.
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Take a look here, hope this helps.
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