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Date:      Sat, 19 Jan 2002 16:37:31 +0300
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Jim Bloom <bloom@acm.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libpam/modules/pam_opie pam_opie.c
Message-ID:  <20020119133731.GA9275@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <3C4973ED.D048EB70@acm.org>
References:  <200201191009.g0JA95b91076@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020119042808.A67985@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020119123903.GA8776@nagual.pp.ru> <3C4973ED.D048EB70@acm.org>

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On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:26:06 -0500, Jim Bloom wrote:
> That was not the case with S/Key under PAM.  When I created pam_opie.c, it
> behaved identically to pam_skey.c.  

It is not possible in strict sense, because SKEY and OPIE functions may
have subtle differences and simple changing skey* prefix to opie* prefix
not means that they behaved identically. Subtle differences mainly comes
through various configuration options for OPIE and changing some
functions.  F.e. tty-level S/key access mechanism is completely removed in
OPIE. It definitely NOT improves security (but maybe not lowers it too).

> Maybe PAM worked differently from some of
> the programs that had S/Key support hard coded in them and the migration to PAM
> changed the behavior.

Yes, and I try to fix this attempting to stay completely inside PAM 
concept. See my previous message why pam_opie needs 3-state return code, 
and can't work properly with 2-state.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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