SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.6.1p2 - Bug #442

[Darren J Moffat]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Darren Tucker wrote:

> What platform are we talking about?
>
> Depending on that you can set the password entry to something that doesn't
> mean "locked" to your system (on Solaris, for example, the system accounts
> use "NP" or "*NP*" to denote "no password authentication").  This will
> still allow the public-key authentication  but not passwords.

NP yes.

If you see *NP* it means that the NIS+ passwd.org_dir table permissions or
the ACIs on the LDAP object were to restrictive for you to read the entry.
Or that nscd choose to block it (NIS+ only).

Or it means that someone manually put *NP* into the field will not
understanding what it is really used for ;-)

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Darren J Moffat