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Date:      Wed, 19 Mar 2003 00:41:48 +0100
From:      des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        re@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rumour of password aging failure in 4.7/4.8RC
Message-ID:  <xzpfzpk1bur.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <xzp3clk2ulz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> (des@ofug.org's message of "Tue, 18 Mar 2003 23:11:20 %2B0100")
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0303181250540.79971-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <xzp3clk2ulz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav) writes:
> > How does PAM come into this?
> It doesn't, really.  It's a privsep problem + the fact that some of
> the pertinent code has been disabled and / or left unimplemented
> because it wouldn't work with privsep (so turning privsep off won't
> help).

I just checked the code, and it should actually work if privsep is
turned off (which should be reasonably safe - there are no known
vulnerabilities in the OpenSSH versions which ship with 4.7 and 4.8,
and the recent OpenSSL problem doesn't affect OpenSSH).  You may want
to give it a try.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@ofug.org

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