*lock* considered empty?

Darren Tucker
Sat, 18 Oct 2003 04:02:07 -0000

James Dennis wrote:
>
> Is *lock* considered empty in regard to passwords? I have an account
> that was locked using *lock* as the password (not my system) and after
> upgrading to 3.7.1 we found that that account could not log in. After
> giving that account a password, it could login fine. We were using
> public key auth so passwords aren't even necessary for that account.

Not exactly.  sshd now tests for locked accounts, but what constitutes
locked varies from platform to platform.

Currently, a literal "*lock*" isn't considered.  The following
strings
are:
Literal "*"		Darwin, HP-UX
Literal "*LK*"		IRIX, Solaris
Substring "Nologin"	Tru64
Leading "!!"		Linux

What platform are you using?

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