[SunHELP] SSH and expired passwords

[Adrian Florea]

if you make a verbose connection attempt (i.e. via 'ssh -v') you may see 
something like:

- ... -

Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive

- ... -

that are current supported auth methods ...


James Fogg wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 09:40 -0500, Grindell, Joan M. wrote:
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>>If someone logons in via ssh and their regular password expires will they be
>>unable to login via SSH also if using only passphrases?
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>>Thanks
>>Joan
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>There are various authentication methods. The usual default is to use
>passwd (or shadow passwords) local to the system. Then there is NIS, NIS
>plus and others.
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>If sshd is set up to use the auth method that the system uses then
>expiration of a password is a block to ssh.
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