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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:30:09 +0400
From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
To: Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>
Subject: Re: OpenSSH, PAM and kerberos
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On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 02:09:26PM +0400, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 09:44:54AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> 
> > Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> writes:
> > > I am try to setup single sign-on and found this is imposuble due to
> > > bug in OpenSSH: currently sshd do pam_authenticate() and
> > > pam_acct_mgmt() from child process, but pam_setcred() from paren
> > > proccess. pam_krb5 in pam_sm_setcred() required information from
> > > pam_sm_authenticate and can't work corretly (can't create
> > > /tmp/krb5cc_NNNN, can't set envirompent KRB5CCNAME and so).
> > 
> > PAM authentication in OpenSSH was broken for non-trivial cases when
> > privilege separation was implemented.  Fixing it properly would be very
> > difficult.
> 
> Same behaviour with 'UsePrivilegeSeparation no'.
> 

This issuse not in privilege separation, this is because PAM
authentication use pthread emulation throw fork().