[Info-vax] EISNER access will be SSH-only

Michael Moroney moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com
Sat Jan 9 16:30:56 EST 2021


Oleg P <pzn.oleg at gmail.com> writes:

>> SSH will now be required to log in.

>Hello!

>I've got an issue while login:

>pyzin at eisner.decus.org's password:
>Permission denied, please try again.
>pyzin at eisner.decus.org's password:

A later post shows that this was an expired account, however I do wish to 
point out there is a certain knob that may need tuning on SSH.  What 
happens is, that depending on the setting, if the password (not account) 
is expired, one of two things can happen.  Either SSH logins aren't 
allowed at all or SSH logins are allowed and you have to go through the 
usual "your password has expired" routine which forces you to change it 
immediately.  Telnet always allows the login/forced change.  There have 
been many times I have had to login via telnet just to update an expired 
password.  (meaning both my old and new password went through the net in 
cleartext!)



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