Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 10:11:14 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sshd_config vs. PAM Message-ID: <20020929151114.GD2853@hellblazer.nectar.cc> In-Reply-To: <200209272135.g8RLZ3We005877@arch20m.dellroad.org> References: <200209272135.g8RLZ3We005877@arch20m.dellroad.org>
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On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 02:35:03PM -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Yow! I was surprised to notice that setting these parameters: > > PasswordAuthentication no > PermitRootLogin without-password > > in /etc/ssh/sshd_config have absolutely NO effect! > > This is because now /etc/pam.conf seems to control everything (?) > > This seems to violate POLA in a very dangerous way. Nor is this > documented anywhere in the ssh man pages... in fact, they lie and > tell you that these options increase security. > > I recommend that we either detach sshd from PAM, or else stop > documenting and pretending that /etc/ssh/sshd_config actually > controls this stuff. As far as I know, stock OpenSSH-portable behaves the same with regard to PAM, except for some reason we use a different knob to affect it (ChallengeResponseAuthentication versus PAMAuthenticationViaKbdInt) and in portable in defaults to `no' while with ours it defaults to `yes'. The man page should be fixed. Cheers, -- Jacques A. Vidrine <nectar@celabo.org> http://www.celabo.org/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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