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Lock-screen telling me I need to change my password immediately (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I enter my password, and it tells me that I "need to change my password immediately". It won't let me use my account, unless I type in a new password or enter the old password 10 times or so.

After repeatedly entering the old password, it will eventually unlock my screen. However, the system date increases by a few hundred years and wifi stops working. Everything turns back to normal after rebooting.

This hasn't happened for a while now, but it used to happen every few weeks. I find it really strange, both the system date and wifi bug, and the fact that I am demanded to change my password.

Did this happen to anyone else, and does anyone know what and who might have caused this? I am curious.

(The distro is debian 12 and the lock-screen/desktop-environment is GNOME 43.6)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It seems plausible that a bad date is expiring your password depending on your policy and configuration. Are you getting time from ntp? If so what server, and what is it saying? What does your bios show for time?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I am not familiar with ntp, I didn't really change any date/time related settings or install any additional software. Also I suspect the BIOS to not be affected, since the date will be normal again after rebooting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

On my system it is called "Network Time", but it might be called "Get current time from the internet" or something on other distros. Might be worth turning it off to see if it fixes things - maybe something on your network is sending incorrect time information?