password expiry/changing

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Sat Jul 7 18:52:01 EST 2001


On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Jon Nathan wrote:

> hi,
>
> does openssh have support for letting the user change his expired
> password?  we are using password aging on solaris 6.  our current
> build of openssh 2.5.2p2 asks for the password 3 times, then
> disconnects the user without allowing him to log in or change it.  if
> not, are there any workarounds (other than root resetting the user's
> password manually).

There is code to change the password through PAM. You need to configure
with --with-pam

-d

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