Re: Ambiguities in section 3.1 of the keyboard-interactive draft

[Damien Miller <djm%mindrot.org@localhost>]

Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
>
> It is worth noting that many of the Linux distributions of which Niels 
> speaks use PAM for all of their "initial authentication" needs as well as 
> for accounting and session management.  OpenSSH implements 
> keyboard-interactive using PAM, but it does _not_ implement "password" that 
> way.  This means that if you expect to use PAM to authenticate user logins, 
> then the server must be configured not to support "password".

Offtopic, but no longer true (as of 3.9p1)

-d