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    About This Document>>
    Introduction to SSH Secure Shell >>
    Configuring SSH Secure Shell >>
    Authentication >>
    Log Messages
        Log Message Reference >>
            User Authentication - Common
            User Authentication - Host-Based
            User Authentication - Keyboard-Interactive PAM
            User Authentication - Keyboard-Interactive Password
            User Authentication - Keyboard-Interactive
            User Authentication - Kerberos TGT
            User Authentication - Kerberos
            User Authentication - PAM
            User Authentication - Password
            User Authentication - Public Key
            User Authentication - SecurID
            Certificate-specific code
            SFTP Server
            Agent Forwarding
            Session Channels
            SSH1 Agent Forwarding
            Port Forwarding
            X11 Forwarding
            Common Code
            Host Key I/O
            General Server Log Messages
            SFTP
    Using SSH Secure Shell >>
    Tool Syntax>>
    Technical Specifications >>

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 disallows 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).

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>).

Password change failed.

The server does not allow root logins

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

The server's configuration doesn't allow root logins or doesn't 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.

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.

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

Kerberos password accepted

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

The server accepted the Kerberos password for the user.

Password accepted

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

The server accepted the user's local password.

Password not accepted

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

The password supplied by the client was invalid.

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.

Badly formatted password change request

Badly formatted password change reques, denying already
successful authentication.

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.

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

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.

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