From owner-freebsd-security Wed Mar 13 19:26:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from pkl.net (spoon.pkl.net [212.111.57.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0371A37B405 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:26:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rik@localhost) by pkl.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA19641; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 03:26:15 GMT Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 03:26:15 +0000 From: rik To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sshd UseLogin option Message-ID: <20020314032614.GA19164@spoon.pkl.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i 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 On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:51:40PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Could someone please explain to me why we don't use sshd's UseLogin > option by default? ISTR this feature is intended for use on very old/weird systems where sshd doesn't know how to authenticate the user or setup a login session. We don't use it, because it's not needed, since we are both supported, and use PAM anyway. Of course, I could be completely wrong, and at 3:30am, I can't find any docs quickly to hand... -- PGP Key: D2729A3F - Keyserver: wwwkeys.uk.pgp.net - rich at rdrose dot org Key fingerprint = 5EB1 4C63 9FAD D87B 854C 3DED 1408 ED77 D272 9A3F Public key also encoded with outguess on http://rikrose.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message