patch for password expiration under Solaris?

[Mordechai T. Abzug]

I'm looking to move some Solaris 2.6 and 7 machines to openssh.
Showstopper bug: openssh (up to 3.1p1) doesn't seem to correctly
implement expired passwords.

Looking back through the archive, it looks like Dave Dykstra submitted
a patch for this problem relative to an older version of openssh at
least as early as last August:

http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/openssh-unix-dev-0108/77.html

The patch seems to work on one of my test machines, after some minimal
finagling.  Is this patch the standard solution to this problem?

Thanks!

- Morty