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Date:      Thu, 21 Apr 2005 18:12:31 +0100 (BST)
From:      Vince Hoffman <jhary@unsane.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   pam_radius and ssh
Message-ID:  <20050421154545.D18353@unsane.co.uk>

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Hi all,
 	I've been looking into using the pam_radius pam module and have 
been trying out the template_user feature as this would ease the 
administrative burden in our setup, (it allows a user to be specified as 
a template if the radius user does not have a local account.) I can get it 
to work fine for login and telnetd, but sshd seems to have a problem. If 
a local user with the same name as the radius user exists then no problem, 
if not then the  template_user should kick in, however it doesnt, in fact 
if the user does not exist localy then the pam_radius module is never 
even invoked, or at least it never sends any query to the radius server.
I'm guessing that sshd checks for a valid user even when its using PAM 
authentication and halts any further progress. Is there any way to turn 
this off?

thank,
Vince



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