3.8p1 password expiry, Solaris 8

[Darren Tucker]

Dmitry Berezin wrote:

> Oops, bad test. (I must have forgotten to restart sshd after making changes
> to sshd_config. Here are the correct results: after running passwd -f, I get
> prompt for password and after typing correct password, I get "Connection
> closed by <server ip>".

That, unfortunately, is a bug.  For details, and a patch, see:
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=808

> Using passwd -df simply results in three prompts for
> password and permission denied after that (This must be the result of
> PermitEmptyPasswords=no).

Yes, that is most likely because of PermitEmptypasswords.

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