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Date:      Sat, 6 Jul 2002 02:47:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   bin/40261: sshd allows PasswordAuthentication even though it is turned off if ChallengeResponseAuthentication is enabled
Message-ID:  <200207060947.g669l6Aw007525@www.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         40261
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sshd allows PasswordAuthentication even though it is turned off if ChallengeResponseAuthentication is enabled
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jul 06 02:50:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Christian Laursen
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE
>Organization:
The Border Worlds
>Environment:
FreeBSD ferengi.borderworlds.dk 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #17: Fri Jul  5 10:42:51 CEST 2002     root@ferengi.borderworlds.dk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FERENGI  i386
>Description:
After upgrading yesterday and now running OpenSSH 3.4p1 I discovered by
accident, that I could log into my machine using PasswordAuthentication
even though I had disabled that in sshd_config.

After I tried disabling ChallengeResponseAuthentication too, it was
no longer possible to log in using passwords.

This is the OpenSSH included in the base system.

>How-To-Repeat:
This is my sshd_config, that produces the surprising behaviour:

#       $OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.56 2002/06/20 23:37:12 markus Exp $
#       $FreeBSD: src/crypto/openssh/sshd_config,v 1.4.2.9 2002/07/03 22:11:44 des Exp $

# This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file.  See
# sshd_config(5) for more information.

# This sshd was compiled with PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

# The strategy used for options in the default sshd_config shipped with
# OpenSSH is to specify options with their default value where
# possible, but leave them commented.  Uncommented options change a
# default value.

# Note that some of FreeBSD's defaults differ from OpenBSD's, and
# FreeBSD has a few additional options.

#VersionAddendum FreeBSD-20020629

#Port 22
Protocol 2
#ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
#ListenAddress ::

# HostKey for protocol version 1
#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
# HostKeys for protocol version 2
#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key

# Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key
#KeyRegenerationInterval 3600
#ServerKeyBits 768

# Logging
#obsoletes QuietMode and FascistLogging
#SyslogFacility AUTH
#LogLevel INFO

# Authentication:

#LoginGraceTime 120
#PermitRootLogin no
#StrictModes yes

#RSAAuthentication yes
#PubkeyAuthentication yes
#AuthorizedKeysFile     .ssh/authorized_keys

# rhosts authentication should not be used
#RhostsAuthentication no
# Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files
#IgnoreRhosts yes
# For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
#RhostsRSAAuthentication no
# similar for protocol version 2
#HostbasedAuthentication no
# Change to yes if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for
# RhostsRSAAuthentication and HostbasedAuthentication
#IgnoreUserKnownHosts no

# To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!
PasswordAuthentication no
#PermitEmptyPasswords no

# Change to no to disable PAM authentication
#ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

# Kerberos options
#KerberosAuthentication no
#KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes
#KerberosTicketCleanup yes

#AFSTokenPassing no

# Kerberos TGT Passing only works with the AFS kaserver
#KerberosTgtPassing no

#X11Forwarding yes
#X11DisplayOffset 10
#X11UseLocalhost yes
#PrintMotd yes
#PrintLastLog yes
#KeepAlive yes
#UseLogin no
UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
#Compression yes

#MaxStartups 10
# no default banner path
#Banner /some/path
#VerifyReverseMapping no

# override default of no subsystems
#Subsystem      sftp    /usr/libexec/sftp-server

>Fix:
      
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