Changing Passwords - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual

12.4.2 Console Login
As well as logging in to the AD client machine using a graphical front-end, you can
log in using the text-based console login or even remotely using SSH.
To log in to your AD client from a console, enter DOMAIN\user at the login:
prompt and provide the password.
To remotely log in to your AD client machine using SSH, proceed as follows:
1 At the login prompt, enter:
2 Provide the user's password.

12.5 Changing Passwords

SUSE Linux Enterprise has the ability to help a user choose a suitable new password
that meets the corporate security policy. The underlying PAM module retrieves the
current password policy settings from the domain controller. It informs about the spe-
cific password quality requirements a user account typically has by means of a message
at login time. Like the Windows counterpart, SUSE Linux Enterprise presents a message
describing:
• Password history settings
• Minimum password length requirements
• Minimum password age
• Password complexity
The password change process cannot succeed unless all requirements have been suc-
cessfully satisfied. Feedback about the password status is given both through the display
managers and the console.
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ssh DOMAIN\\user@hostname
The \ domain and login delimiter is escaped with another \ sign.