Subject: Re: pam, ssh, and pam_ssh
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@tac.gw.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/14/2005 18:44:54
In article <4236026C.2050407@entropy.homeip.net>,
maximum entropy <entropy@entropy.homeip.net> wrote:
>
>That's worded way too vaguely for me to tell if you're understanding the
>problem or not. The pam_ssh module isn't "loading" any keys in the
>sense of using those keys themselves for authentication. It just allows
>the *passphrase* for the private key to be used as an *additional* login
>password for the account containing that private key. In many common
>cases, that passphrase will be too weak to be desirable as a login
>password. So in the true UNIX tradition, go ahead and give the admin
>the rope, but *please* don't hang him with it by default. Please!
>
I commented out pam_ssh from all the /usr/src/etc/pam.d files.
christos