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Date:      Mon, 7 Oct 2002 18:42:48 -0500
From:      Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Samuel Chow <cyschow@shaw.ca>, dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca, Jamie Heckford <jamie@jamiesdomain.org.uk>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sshd_config vs. PAM
Message-ID:  <20021007234248.GH29829@luke.immure.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021007232051.GA31301@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200209272135.g8RLZ3We005877@arch20m.dellroad.org> <002e01c26873$3d717a50$3264a8c0@BONG> <864rc3f4ks.fsf@number6.magda.ca> <20021005155131.GA8769@luke.immure.com> <01c201c26e54$f00f54c0$9284412f@SAMCHOW2> <20021007232051.GA31301@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:20:51PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:57:39PM -0600, Samuel Chow wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > BTW, is there a way to completely disable PAM on a system?
> > 
> >     I was looking at it a couple months back.  There is
> >     the NOPAM compiler flag.  Unfortunately, telnet and 
> >     ssh does not obey it.  I have some untested patch
> >     at home before I got too busy with other non-FreeBSD
> >     things.
> 
> PAM is considered to be an integral part of the system thesedays; as
> such there's no support for compiling without it.

Too bad. I find it to be rather painful to understand and configure, and
overkill for most of uses.

Bob

> 
> Kris



-- 
Bob Willcox            We seem to have forgotten the simple truth that
bob@vieo.com           reason is never perfect. Only non-sense attains
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