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Operating Systems Solaris PAM, Solaris, Openssh and Forcing a password change Post 302297617 by woodson2 on Saturday 14th of March 2009 05:53:19 AM
Old 03-14-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Perderabo
What version of Solaris? Solaris 10 comes with ssh, are you using that? If not, what version of openssh? Did you get it from blastwave of sunfreeware?

Is UsePAM set in sshd.conf?

Hi, thanks for responding. I'm using Solaris 10 and I've replaced Suns ssh with the Solaris portable version of openssh 5.0 from Openssh.com. UsePAM is set to yes in sshd_config.
 

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dsenableroot

dsenableroot(8) 					    BSD System Manager's Manual 					   dsenableroot(8)

NAME

     dsenableroot -- enables or disables the root account.

SYNOPSIS

     dsenableroot [-d] [-u username] [-p password] [-r rootPassword]

DESCRIPTION

     dsenableroot sets the password for the root account if enabling the root user account.  Otherwise, if disable [-d] is chosen, the root
     account passwords are removed and the root user is disabled.

     A list of flags and their descriptions:

     -u username
	      Username of a user that has administrative privileges on this computer.

     -p password
	      Password to use in conjunction with the specified username.  If this is not specified, you will be prompted for entry.

     -r rootPassword
	      Password to be used for the root account.  If this is not specified for enabling, you will be prompted for entry.

EXAMPLES

     -dsenableroot
	      Your username will be used and you will be queried for both your password and the new root password to be set to enable the root
	      account.

     -dsenableroot -d
	      Your username will be used and you will be queried for only your password to disable the root account.

     -dsenableroot -u username -p userpassword -r rootpassword
	      The supplied arguments will be used to enable the root account.

     -dsenableroot -d -u username -p userpassword
	      The supplied arguments will be used to disable the root account.

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