Call for testing for 3.5 OpenSSH

Kevin Steves kevin at atomicgears.com
Thu Sep 26 11:41:48 EST 2002


On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 06:09:30PM -0500, Jeff Koenig wrote:
> Can someone reply and let me know what the status is on getting the PAM password expiration on Solaris issue working on OpenSSH?

http://www.eviladmin.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/auth-pam.c

issues:
.no privsep support
.needs testing and review

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=103065556302487&w=2

> Password expiring on our Solaris 7 and 8 servers does not work correctly with OpenSSH.  I believe this is a known issue, and was told that it might get resolved in 3.5, but now it sounds like it may not be resolved.

It appears that it will not.

> I hate to say it, but this is a critical feature for us now and my boss is pressuring me to get it resolved.  I am trying to avoid his suggestion of going with commercial SSH and would like to continue using what I like (OpenSSH).

You can also pay someone to address this in OpenSSH.



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