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Date:      Wed, 8 May 1996 10:58:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Keith Mitchell <kmitch@phantasma.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Security hole(??) in password expiration
Message-ID:  <199605081458.KAA01204@phantasma.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>

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If a user tries to login with an expired password, login calls passwd to
get them to change their password.  If they just hit enter at the new
password prompt, then they can still get in.  Their expired flag on their
password remains in effect, but they can "get arround" password expiration
in this manner.

I (personally) would like to see it close the connection if this happens
(or at least keep prompting them).  Is this feasable?

BTW this is in 2.1R/stable/current.




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