[PATCH] Password expiry with Privsep and PAM

Kevin Steves stevesk at pobox.com
Thu Jan 2 13:51:26 EST 2003


On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:11:01AM -0600, Ben Lindstrom wrote:
> I know Darren wrote one to use /bin/passwd but after we both looked at it
> we pretty much decided it was not something we wanted to handle, but the
> more I think about this.. the more I'm starting to agree with Markus.  No
> matter the additional risks of changing passwords after the tty for v1 and
> v2 has been open it should be done that way.  This is just getting way to
> complex to even manage in my head.

yes, i agree.  if we can implement password change after
authentication securely, then i think we can change the spec.
complexity is the issue, we can ignore a MUST for now if it weighs on
the side of security.



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