error: PAM: User account has expired for wlin from hongkong.test.org - why?

[Wendy Lin]

On 1 April 2014 10:29, Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems Administrator]
<Predrag.Zecevic at 2e-systems.com> wrote:
> On 04/ 1/14 10:16 AM, Wendy Lin wrote:
>> On 18 March 2014 22:11, Wendy Lin <wendlin1974 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Can anyone explain this pam error to me? I have configured a machine
>>> (192.168.2.105) as Kerberos5 client on Suse 12.3 via yast talking to
>>> the kdc at 192.168.2.98 and now get this error on the client if I try
>>> to log in via ssh:
>>>
>>> 2014-03-18T22:04:20.877103+01:00 susevm001 sshd[2567]: error: PAM:
>>> User account has expired for wlin from hongkong.test.org
>>> 2014-03-18T22:04:20.879799+01:00 susevm001 sshd[2567]: Connection
>>> closed by 192.168.2.98 [preauth]
>>> 2014-03-18T22:04:29.760068+01:00 susevm001 sshd[2571]: error: PAM:
>>> User account has expired for wlin from nexentapuzzle.nrubsig.org
>>
>> Anyone?
>>
>> Wendy
> Hi Wendy,
>
> I would check if user account is not locked or it has valid, not expired password on system (/etc/shadow)

I already did, and the Unix account itself is fine. The problem
started when I added the Kerberos5 auth to the mix

Wendy