AIX and ADMCHG

Ben Lindstrom mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org
Wed Jul 24 11:18:24 EST 2002


Ok.. I did see it.=)  It is in the source.

- Ben

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Ben Lindstrom wrote:

>
>
> For password change to be  handled correctly  one needs to implement
> SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_PASSWD_CHANGEREQ and the corresponding
> SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_REQUEST.
>
> I thought I saw a patch floating around for the general support but I
> don't have it link to it off hand.
>
> http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-secsh-userauth-15.txt
>
> - Ben
>
> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, cawlfiel wrote:
>
> > In AIX, whenever a root user or a member of the security group changes a
> > user's password, the ADMCHG attribute is set which means that the next
> > time the user logs in, he will be forced to change his password.
> > However, ssh is currently ignoring ADMCHG.
> >
> > I havn't seen any mention of this on the mailing list or Bugzilla, so
> > I'm considering writing a patch to correct this problem.  Has anyone
> > else looked at this?
> >
> > -----------------------
> >
> > Kevin Cawlfield
> > AIX IP Security
> > cawlfiel at austin.ibm.com
> >
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