Infrastructure Software

When someone tries to login to a SOLARIS 10 server via SSH in PuTTY the details are limited to the following:

login as: testacct
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Password:
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
New Password:
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Re-enter new Password:
Access denied
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Password:
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
New Password:
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Re-enter new Password:

I don't know if this is a feature of PuTTY or Solaris 10 that is disabled but what I would expect to see above are messages such as:

Warning: Your password has expired, please change it now.
or
The first 8 characters of the password must contain at least 1 numeric or special character(s).
(depending on your /etc/default/passwd)

Where is this information being suppressed? I am looking to enable that extra information so when, for example, "Access Denied" appears, the user has some clue as to why and can take corrective action to properly login.

Thanks.

PS- I ran ssh -vvv user@host and saw that the "extra info" above was being generated, but it's not making it over to the PuTTY client side.

Edited by: dubitancy on Dec 12, 2008 9:37 AM