1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Vesion 3.8.1 of OpenSSH has been compiled on a Solaris 8 host. I am having difficulties in enabling password aging to work from reading /etc/default/passwd and /etc/shadow. # passwd -f < user-id > works satisfactorily however once a password ages through due course from the settings in... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

If the command passwd -f is used, Users get the below error. I need to force users to change there passwords at initial login. Anyone know what is going on? This is on a Non-Stop UX system UX:in.login: ERROR: Your password has been expired for too long UX:in.login: TO FIX: Consult your system... (0 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi experts this is regarding password aging i tried searching forum but i cudnt locate given a login id, i would like to determine whether password ageing has been enabled for that and for the login id whether password has been expired on a particular point of time Thanks (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi , is there anyway of implementing password aging in NIS? I would say thanks in advance. Thanks and regards, HAA (1 Reply)

5. AIX

Hi, While I am trying SFTP my machine to another unix machine , it was working fine till 10 min back. But now i am getting the below error "Request for subsystem 'sftp' failed on channel 0" Could you please someone help me to solve or analyise the root cause... Cheers:b:, Mahiban (0 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi there, what is the meaning of this line: SFTP subsystem requests: 5 Time(s) in: /var/mail/root??? Tks in advance, GB (0 Replies)

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi all, I have a Solaris 10 server with SUN_SSH_1.1 installed. I want to restrict a user via SFTP to only be able to access one directory. I've written a little script in .profile which works perfectly for an ssh login but it appears sftp doesn't read the .profile file so it doesn't work. ... (2 Replies)

8. AIX

I have several ssh servers *running aix 5.3 and they respond to sftp requests just fine, but I have one that requires clients to specify the path to the sftp server using the -s flag which is*/usr/sbin/sftp-server I check the sshd_config across all servers and they are the same. *The other... (1 Reply)

9. Red Hat

Hi I need a specific user to be able to sftp to a server and get files from a specific location. The location is not the users home dir, i don't want the user to be able to view anything else apart from the files in that area. e.g ftp file are is - /logging/phplogs e.g user home is... (1 Reply)

10. Linux

Recently I have been playing with password ageing and the usage of ssh keys. I have found that if usePAM yes (default) is set in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file then any password ageing and inactiivity can adversely affect a client with ssh keys. For example: Set PASS_MAX_DAYS to 60 in... (5 Replies)