AIX and Privsep.

Ben Lindstrom mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org
Fri Jul 5 03:22:59 EST 2002


On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 06:14:31PM -0500, Ben Lindstrom wrote:
> >
> > Outside the patch I just sent.  *IS* there any other open bugs, issues
> > or problems with AIX and Privsep.  Or with AIX in general?
> >
>
> Really minor issues, but since you asked..
>
> OpenSSH is not setting the environment variables AUTHSTATE or LOGIN or
> the variables defined in /etc/security/environ. It doesn't handle
> password expiry or the ADMCHG flag to force the users to change their
> passwords.
>
>

Do I hear you begging to submit a patch for peer review to solve theses
problems?

Remember I don't have an AIX box near me or I'd be more than happy to fix
it.

The next box I'm acquiring is an SGI Indy box.

- Ben




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