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From: Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org>
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Subject: docs/34479: bug in sshd manpage ( sshd and /var/run/nologin )
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>Number:         34479
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       bug in sshd manpage ( sshd and /var/run/nologin )
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan 30 21:00:00 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Christopher Schulte
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.4, 4.5 / OpenSSH 2.3.0, 2.9.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD futon.schulte.org 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Wed Jan 30 01:46:27 CST 2002

sshd version OpenSSH_2.9 FreeBSD localisations 20011202
>Description:
There appears to be a bug in the manpage of sshd(8).  It tells us:

When a user successfully logs in, sshd does the following:
[snip 1,2]

3.   Checks /etc/nologin and /var/run/nologin; if one exists, it
                prints the contents and quits (unless root).


This is not the case, as I documented here:

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=277364+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-security/20020127.freebsd-security
>How-To-Repeat:
touch /var/run/nologin and try to ssh in as non-root.

>Fix:
Edit the man page to tell us /var/run/nologin only works if 'UseLogin' is defined, as suggested by this mailing list message:

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=280283+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-security/20020127.freebsd-security
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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