I have a Solaris 8 2/02 SPARC test server that has an issue with the root account. I am able to log in with this account but every time I do, I am met with this message...
WARNING: Your password has expired. If you have cron jobs, they may fail. Please change your password at your earliest convenience.
I have tried changing the password. However, the message still appears when logging in. I also do not want the account to expire. So after I changed the password, I also ran the following command...
passwd -x -1 root
This disables password aging on the account. I confirmed in /etc/shadow that it has been disabled.
I am not sure why this message still appears but it is causing my cron jobs not to run. Any help with this matter is greatly appreciated!