Re: AIX patch works for Openssh but not Putty

From: vervoom (vervoom@hotmail.com)
Date: 11/05/02 

From: vervoom <vervoom@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 14:01:50 +0000

Darren Tucker wrote:
> In article <3DC7BF2D.9090003@hotmail.com>,
> vervoom <vervoom@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>After applying that patch, I was logged in (using Putty and OpenSSH)
>>without having to change my password at all. Is that right?
>
>
> No it's not, assuming your password was expired or had PW_ADMCHG set.
>
> How did you force the password change (eg did you reset the password
> as root?)
>

By doing:
passwd user
setting the password
and then logging in again.
That then prompted me for a new password on telnet. Sorry to ask a silly
question but can you use the passwd command in AIX to expire a user (I
don't have the man page)? In Solaris, you do passwd -f user but that
does something with gecos in AIX.

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