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).

Level: warning

Facility: AUTH

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

Password change required after password change

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

Level: warning

Facility: AUTH

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

Password change failed

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

Level: warning

Facility: AUTH

Password change failed.

Password change succeeded

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

Level: notice

Facility: AUTH

Password change succeeded.

Error during password change

passwd_change: error_msg: '<error-message>'

Level: warning

Facility: AUTH

An error happened during password changing.

The server does not allow root logins

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

Level: warning

Facility: AUTH

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

The server does not allow logins with empty passwords

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

Level: warning

Facility: AUTH

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

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.

Level: warning

Facility: AUTH

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

Kerberos password accepted

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

Level: notice

Facility: AUTH

The server accepted the Kerberos password for the user.

Password accepted

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

Level: notice

Facility: AUTH

The server accepted the user's local password.

Password not accepted

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

Level: warning

Facility: AUTH

The password supplied by the client was invalid.

Password authentication accepted

Password authentication for user <login-name> accepted.

Level: notice

Facility: AUTH

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

Badly formatted password change request

Badly formatted password change request, denying already successful authentication.

Level: notice

Facility: AUTH

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

Changing user's password

Changing <login-name>'s password.

Level: notice

Facility: AUTH

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

Password change needed for the user

User <login-name> forced to change password.

Level: informational

Facility: AUTH

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

User exceeds maximum number of password guesses

PasswordGuesses exceeded.

Level: warning

Facility: AUTH

User exceeded maximum number of password guesses.