SSH

User Authentication - Password

User not allowed to log in after password change

User '<login-name>' not allowed to log in after password change (strange).

For some reason, the system denies login for the user after a mandatory password change.

Facility: SSH_LOGFACILITY_AUTH

Level: SSH_LOG_WARNING

Password change required after password change

User '<login-name>' password must be changed after password change (strange).

For some reason, the system requires the user to change their password even after a mandatory password change.

Facility: SSH_LOGFACILITY_AUTH

Level: SSH_LOG_WARNING

Password change failed

Password change for user '<login-name>' failed (reason: <error-message>).

Password change failed.

Facility: SSH_LOGFACILITY_AUTH

Level: SSH_LOG_WARNING

Password change succeeded

Password change for user '<login-name>' succeeded.

Password change succeeded.

Facility: SSH_LOGFACILITY_AUTH

Level: SSH_LOG_NOTICE

Error during password change

passwd_change: error_msg: '<error-message>'

An error happened during password changing.

Facility: SSH_LOGFACILITY_AUTH

Level: SSH_LOG_WARNING

The server does not allow root logins

root login denied for user '<login-name>'.

The server's configuration does not allow root (administrator) logins or does not allow root logins with a password.

Facility: SSH_LOGFACILITY_AUTH

Level: SSH_LOG_WARNING

The server does not allow logins with empty passwords

attempt to login as <login-name> with empty password denied.

The server's configuration does not allow logins with empty passwords.

Facility: SSH_LOGFACILITY_AUTH

Level: SSH_LOG_WARNING

The server does not allow logins with passwords longer than 256 characters

attempt to login as <login-name> with password longer than 256 characters denied.

The server does not allow logins with passwords longer than 256 characters.

Facility: SSH_LOGFACILITY_AUTH

Level: SSH_LOG_WARNING

Kerberos password accepted

Kerberos password accepted for user <login-name> (<kerberos-name>).

The server accepted the Kerberos password for the user.

Facility: SSH_LOGFACILITY_AUTH

Level: SSH_LOG_NOTICE

Password accepted

User <login-name>'s local password accepted.

The server accepted the user's local password.

Facility: SSH_LOGFACILITY_AUTH

Level: SSH_LOG_NOTICE

Password not accepted

Wrong password given for user '<login-name>'.

The password supplied by the client was invalid.

Facility: SSH_LOGFACILITY_AUTH

Level: SSH_LOG_WARNING

Password authentication accepted

Password authentication for user <login-name> accepted.

The client passed the password authentication, but the server still needs to check whether the password needs to be changed.

Facility: SSH_LOGFACILITY_AUTH

Level: SSH_LOG_NOTICE

Badly formatted password change request

Badly formatted password change request, denying already successful authentication.

The server received a badly formatted password change request, and the authentication will be noted as failed.

Facility: SSH_LOGFACILITY_AUTH

Level: SSH_LOG_NOTICE

Changing user's password

Changing <login-name>'s password.

The server is now trying to change the user's password.

Facility: SSH_LOGFACILITY_AUTH

Level: SSH_LOG_NOTICE

Password change needed for the user

User <login-name> forced to change password.

The server has determined that the user's password must be changed.

Facility: SSH_LOGFACILITY_AUTH

Level: SSH_LOG_INFORMATIONAL

User exceeds maximum number of password guesses

PasswordGuesses exceeded.

User exceeded maximum number of password guesses.

Facility: SSH_LOGFACILITY_AUTH

Level: SSH_LOG_WARNING