[scponly] changing passwords remotely over scponly .. what am I doing wrong ?

Kaleb Pederson kpederson at mail.ewu.edu
Mon Mar 6 16:38:44 EST 2006


You might have to issue "ssh -t username at hostname passwd".  Some OSs will 
disconnect you if you don't have a valid (pseudo-)terminal.

If that doesn't help, turn on debugging "echo 1 > /etc/scponly/debuglevel" and 
then let us know what shows up in syslog so we can help more.

Thanks.

--Kaleb

On Monday 06 March 2006 1:23 pm, Ensel Sharon wrote:
> I configured with --enable-passwd-compat, and my jail does indeed have the
> passwd binary and libpam.so.3 in it ... everything looks good.
>
> When I attempt to change my password remotely, however, I get:
>
> # ssh username at hostname passwd
> Password:
> Changing local password for username
> #
>
>
> So .. nothing.  It asks me for a password to log in, and it echos the
> first line of the passwd binary ... but then just disconnects.  What am I
> doing wrong here ?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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