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AIX- sshd account

Why does AIX have sshd user account...
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Can we set this accout to have a maxage to 0 ( Max age of the password )
Yeah you can but why would you care to set it while you wont need it at all ?
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Should you be interested in details about privilege separation - I found this for you:

http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/ssh/privsep.html


Excerpt from IBM AIX OpenSSH manual:

Start the sshd daemon by running the command:  /usr/bin/startsrc -s sshd  

Note: If the AIX machine on which OpenSSH is installed also has GSA installed, the SSH daemon will not start. This is a known problem. You will need to first check to see if the sshd user exists on the system. If not, it should be created with the following commands:

mkgroup sshd    

mkuser -a pgrp=sshd login=false home=/var/empty gecos="OpenSSH privilege separation" account_locked=true sshd  

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K.