From: Smith, Kevin C (kevin.smith@nmci-isf.com)
Date: Mon Jul 01 2002 - 12:22:40 EDT
> I am trying to come up with a solution to manage our passwords for
> remote systems. We are not running nis, nfs, or any authentication
> tools. The only thing I have is ssh.
>
> My first question is would writing a script to change the password on
> 1 localhost and pushing the /etc/shadow out to the other remote sites
> do the trick, or would there be problems. The reason for this is our
> passwords are set to expire every 30 days. If I do not manually
> change them, on the 31 day I can no longer ssh to the machines I get
> permission denied.
>
> We are running Solaris 8 on about 30 ultra 60s with basic security
> module enabled.
>
> My second question is this.
> When I try to run the following command I get permission denied.
> ssh root@<remotehost> passwd
> But if I run:
> ssh root@<remotehost> cat /etc/hosts
> Its fine.
> I do not know why and cannot find any docs about it.
>
> Thanks for any ideas
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