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Date:      Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:19:21 +0100
From:      "Jamie Heckford" <jamie@jamiesdomain.org.uk>
To:        "Archie Cobbs" <archie@dellroad.org>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: sshd_config vs. PAM
Message-ID:  <002e01c26873$3d717a50$3264a8c0@BONG>
References:  <200209272135.g8RLZ3We005877@arch20m.dellroad.org>

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I would very much like to see ssh completely detached from PAM, and have the PAM ties as an option you have to enable as opposed to
it being the default.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Archie Cobbs" <archie@dellroad.org>
To: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 10:35 PM
Subject: sshd_config vs. PAM


> Yow! I was surprised to notice that setting these parameters:
>
>    PasswordAuthentication no
>    PermitRootLogin without-password
>
> in /etc/ssh/sshd_config have absolutely NO effect!
>
> This is because now /etc/pam.conf seems to control everything (?)
>
> This seems to violate POLA in a very dangerous way.  Nor is this
> documented anywhere in the ssh man pages... in fact, they lie and
> tell you that these options increase security.
>
> I recommend that we either detach sshd from PAM, or else stop
> documenting and pretending that /etc/ssh/sshd_config actually
> controls this stuff.
>
> -Archie
>
> __________________________________________________________________________
> Archie Cobbs     *     Packet Design     *     http://www.packetdesign.com
>
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