SSHD 3.7.1p2 on HP-UX

[Michael Steffens]

Jan P. Sorensen wrote:
> I have used SSHD from openssh-3.7.1p1 on HP-UX 11:11. It works
> correctly and the entry in the logfile is:
> 
> Sep 24 07:01:20 garm sshd[6625]: Accepted password for japs from
> 192.38.97.131 port 2463
> 
> Next I have upgraded to openssh-3.7.1p2 and restarted SSHD. It does not
> accept the password any more and the entries in the logfile are:
> 
> Sep 24 12:21:38 garm sshd[19542]: User japs not allowed because account is
> locked
> Sep 24 12:21:38 garm sshd[19542]: Failed none for illegal user japs from
> 130.225.127.34 port 50593 ssh2
> Sep 24 12:21:41 garm sshd[19542]: Failed password for illegal user japs
> from 130.225.127.34 port 50593 ssh2
> 
> The /etc/sshd_config is the same in the two cases.

May I guess it is because PAM has been disabled, and you are running
ShadowPassword on 11.11?

Non-PAM password authentication is not able to pickup shadow passwords,
because this is disabled, too.

(See also http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633)

Cheers!
Michael