From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 18 15:41:53 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39FD437B401; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 15:41:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7006243F93; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 15:41:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 76E875308; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 00:41:49 +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: Julian Elischer Cc: re@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rumour of password aging failure in 4.7/4.8RC From: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 00:41:48 +0100 In-Reply-To: (des@ofug.org's message of "Tue, 18 Mar 2003 23:11:20 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.2 References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message