Expired password handling in openssh-2.5.1p1/2

[Kevin Taylor]

Kevin Steves wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Kevin Taylor wrote:
> : > : Right now the program closes the connection....the commercial ssh
> : > : manages to exec /bin/passwd after they enter their current password.
> : >
> : > there is only support thru PAM right now.  i had started a
> : > multi-platform password interface last year, and while it was close to
> : > the point of being integrated, i have been side-tracked with stuff that
> : > was more interesting to work on.  adding just code to run passwd if the
> : > password has expired isn't hard, and maybe we should do that.
> :
> :
> : Has any of this ended up in the current openssh portable code?
> 
> no, what platform are you using?  i should have said adding code to run
> passwd for one platform isn't hard.  you have getspent(), getprpwent(),
> BSD pw_change, some with password aging data in the password field, and
> getpwaent() systems, and probably more.  i'll think about it some more.

I'm building on an irix machine.


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