AIX issues

[Steven Bade]

Mark.... At least on 5.1, openSSH is supported by IBM via it's AIX 
support channels.  You might want to also take these up via a PMR or 2...

Mark Grennan wrote:

> Hello everyone, 
> 
> I have been given the task of working out a number of issues with
> OpenSSH for my company (Hertz). 
> 
> I have been following the mailing list for several days now and I'm
> beginning to compile a list of who is working on what.  To make my task
> faster, it would nice if the people working on the following issues
> would drop me a email before I start to rewrite their code and get it
> wrong. :-)
> 
> I am dealing with AIX 4.3.3, AIX 5.x, and OpenSSH 2.5.1p1 and 2.9.9p2. 
> I'm sure some of these issues have been fixed. 
> 
> The issues are:
> 
>     1. Allows login even though the password has expired either from age
>     or after being reset by a security analyst.
>     
>     2. Doesn't update AIX's "failed login count", consequently the ID is
>     not locked after 5 invalid login attempts.
>     
>     3. Doesn't record the failed login in AIX's failedlogin log.
>     
>     4. Doesn't post logged in users to the wtmp file causing it to
>     appear as if no one is logged in.
>     
>     5. Corrupts the file that stores the last login date for users
>     making it impossible to lock or remove accounts for inactivity.
>     
>     6. Doesn't honor the /etc/ftpusers to restrict sftp access. Any
>     users can use ftp through SSH.
>     
>     7. Syslog entries for SSH login don't differentiate between SSH,
>     SFTP, or other tunneled logins.
>     
>     8. OpenSSH doesn't show user logouts in syslog like F-Secure does.
>     
> My first step is to move both envirements to 3.4p1 and retest.
> 
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