From owner-freebsd-security Wed Mar 13 5:51:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FCA137B4FC; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 05:51:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 729DC5347; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:51:41 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: security@freebsd.org Subject: sshd UseLogin option From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 13 Mar 2002 14:51:40 +0100 Message-ID: Lines: 9 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Could someone please explain to me why we don't use sshd's UseLogin option by default? I know that there was a security hole related to that option recently, but that's not a real reason - security holes can show up anywhere - so is there anything that makes UseLogin a particularly bad idea? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message