Re: password expires on solaris

From: Christopher Denney (chris_at_DO.pagan.NOT.net.SPAM)
Date: 06/12/03


Date: 12 Jun 2003 12:02:57 -0600

dtucker@dodgy.net.au (Darren Tucker) wrote in
news:bc7383$hs2$1@gate.dodgy.net.au:

> In article <Xns9396AD86BD3A8chrispagannet@206.124.0.13>,
> Christopher Denney <chris@DO.pagan.NOT.net.SPAM> wrote:
>>When a user's password expires on a Solaris 8 system running
>>openssh-3.6p1 they cannot log in (I pre-expire all new users, this
>>sucks a lot) except with telnet. I started out with "./configure
>>--with-pam"
>
> See:
> http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14
> http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423
> http://www.zip.com.au/~dtucker/openssh/
>
> It's not all that obvious but the patch (passexpire20) found at the
> last link will work for Solaris 8+PAM.
>
> [snip]
>>fatal: monitor_read: unsupported request: 24
>> failed login from expired user ^^^^
>>I am also concerned by the difference in messages.
>
> That's actually a bug in the PrivSep+PAM support. The current devel
> versions of OpenSSH has had a complete PAM overhaul.
>

Thanks, I had looked at those cursorily and didn't see it.

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