[openssh] Re: 3.7.1p2: HP-UX 11.00 & NIS+ problems

Steven Whatley swhatley at hal-pc.org
Wed Oct 15 13:07:38 EST 2003


On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Darren Tucker wrote:
> swhatley at hal-pc.org wrote:
> > When we installed OpenSSH 3.7.1p2, we could no longer ssh into the root
> > account.  The following message would appear in the syslog.log:
> >
> > Oct  8 19:20:38 myhost sshd[22179]: User root not allowed because account is
> > locked
>
> 3.7.1p2 had a couple of bugs on HP-UX in some configurations (trusted mode
> and shadow passwords are the ones I know of, and it looks like NIS+ too).
> Most have been fixed in the recent snapshots, but I've also got a patch
> that accumulates just the HP-UX fixes:

OK, yes, we are running in trusted mode.  That explains it.  Thanks for
the info and patch.

Thanks,
Steven




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