My wife is unable to log in, getting a message saying her account has expired. I don’t have an account on her system to login in to reactivate her account. What is the best way to resolve this without having to do a wipe and rebuild of my wife’s laptop?
you boot your machine, and when you see the login screen (GDM), you press CTRL+ALT+F3 to get to a virtual terminal (tty3), login as root and remove the account expiration with chage -E -1 <wife>, whereas <wife> must be replaced with her username.
Thank you for your help - much appreciated! My wife can now use her laptop again. I’m saving your responses to my Linux reference folder under Joplin for future reference.