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)
It seems like everyone else has beaten the clock thing to death, but I just want to throw in my two cents. I have worked on NTP in the past and anytime there was a bug that set the time wrong, all hell broke loose with general usability of the client system.
If you’re using Debian and haven’t like, intentionally installed a bunch of shady stuff, malware is pretty unlikely.
Double check how/where your time is being set. Try turning off any automatic adjustments and see what happens for a little while.