3.8p1 password expiry, Solaris 8

[Dmitry Berezin]

> Yep, that's bug #808.  Expiry will work OK if you set UsePAM=no.

  UsePAM=no works fine.

I have some strange problem while running sshd in debug mode, though. If I
login to the server with Gnome 2.0 desktop as a regular user, su to root,
and then run sshd -ddd, then when some other user with expired password
tries to login and sshd tries to change password for that user, I get an
error message:

WARNING: Your password has expired.
You must change your password now and login again!
passwd: Changing password for <USER THAT LOGGED IN TO GNOME>
Permission denied

If I just ssh into the box and start sshd -ddd on some other port, the
problem does not occur.

I will do some more tests tomorrow and post more precise info about this.
(It's late and I might be doing something wrong)

  -Dmitry.

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