Re: sshd fails to start with "UsePam no"

From: Alessandro Selli (adoro.lo.spam_at_libero.it)
Date: 09/26/03 

Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:35:11 +0200

Il giorno Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Mathias Samuelson cosė ha scritto:

|Using OpenSSH_3.6.1p2, I want to disable PAM to counter the latest
|advisory. However, sshd fails to start:
|
|bash-2.03# /usr/local/sbin/sshd -f /usr/local/etc/sshd_config -t
|/usr/local/etc/sshd_config: line 26: Bad configuration option: UsePam
|/usr/local/etc/sshd_config: terminating, 1 bad configuration options
|
|This is on Solaris 8, with the September 16 patch, configure options:
|
|./configure --with-ipv4-default --without-rsh --disable-suid-ssh
|
|I'd appreciate any help on this. :)

ftp://ftp.ca.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/ChangeLog

20030514

  [...]

  - (djm) Add new UsePAM configuration directive to allow runtime control
    over usage of PAM. This allows non-root use of sshd when built with
    --with-pam
  - (djm) Die screaming if start_pam() is called when UsePAM=no

  Now, SSH 3.6.1p1 was released on 20030401, while it seems 3.6.1p2 was
released on Apr 29th, that is, fifteen days before the "UsePam" option was made
available.

  Sandro 

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