RE: PAM based authentication?

From: Ben Lindstrom (mouring_at_etoh.eviladmin.org)
Date: 06/18/03

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To: Anurag Bhatia <Anuragb@ami.com>

    If you don't have the source code.. you can't enable/disable PAM. That is
    just the facts of life.

    - Ben

    On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Anurag Bhatia wrote:

    > Hello Ben,
    > Thanks for ur help. I tried configuring sshd with --with-pam option and it
    > worked. Im now able to use PAM and MD5 based password support with ssh
    > access.
    > What if I don't have access to the source code to reconfigure?
    > What if I just want to use oone of many configuration files in ssh to enable
    > PAM for password authentication? Is there a way to do it?
    > Regards,
    > Anurag
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Ben Lindstrom [mailto:mouring@etoh.eviladmin.org]
    > Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:14 PM
    > To: Anurag Bhatia
    > Cc: secureshell@securityfocus.com
    > Subject: Re: PAM based authentication?
    >
    >
    >
    > You need to ./configure --with-pam we disabled auto-enable because PAM
    > standard is too scattered and actually caused more headache for support.
    >
    > - Ben
    >
    > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Anurag Bhatia wrote:
    >
    > > Hi all,
    > > I'm using OpenSSH_3.6.1p2. While configuring sshd, I found the result for
    > > PAM support as NO. Doesn't sshd use PAM by default????
    > >
    > > I want to use MD5 based passwords with PAM support.
    > >
    > > 1. So, first to enable MD5 based password support...
    > > I configured sshd with --with-md5-passwords. sshd accepts MD5
    > > passwords after it's configured with -with-md5-passwords. But it
    > > doesn't accept password if shadow file is used on the server. How do
    > > I make it accept MD5 based passwords even when shadow is used?
    > >
    > > 2. How do I enable PAM based authentication? I tried enabling
    > > "PAMAuthenticaionViaKbdInt yes" in sshd_config but didn't see any
    > difference
    > > in debug output when connecting sshd. I still see that it's using next
    > > authenticaion method as "password" which allows user to login.
    > >
    > > Thanks in advance,
    > > Anurag
    > >
    >

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