remshd:Password expired.

[Steve Ferrara]

Hi guys,

Newbie here. User gets this message while trying to perform rcp. How/where do I reset this password? Is it refering to the users password? Thanks

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

It is referring to the password of the user on the REMOTE machine the he/she is trying to connect to.

[Keely Jackson]

Hi

Yes, the users password has expired in the machine they are trying to copy the file to.

They will need to reset it and try again.

Cheers
Keely

[Keely Jackson]

Hi

Yes, the users password has expired in the remote machine they are trying to copy the file to/from.

They will need to reset it and try again.

Cheers
Keely

[Armin Feller]

Please check the $HOME/.rhosts or /etc/hosts.equiv file. If the user has paaswordfree access you should not get this message.

Regards ...
Armin

[Steve Ferrara]

Thanks everybody. I never expected such a quick response!

[Steven E. Protter]

Additional recommendations:

Assign points to those above who helped you.

Eliminate rcp.

Here is free secure replacement software and a paper to show how to set up secure password free scp(instead of rcp) for HP-UX.

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=T1471AA

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