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Date:      Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:44:54 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: OpenSSH, PAM and kerberos
Message-ID:  <86d2ovy64p.fsf@nine.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20130829004844.GA70584@zxy.spb.ru> (Slawa Olhovchenkov's message of "Thu, 29 Aug 2013 04:48:44 %2B0400")
References:  <20130829004844.GA70584@zxy.spb.ru>

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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.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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