i think this is great

[Damien Miller]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Steve VanDevender wrote:

> While looking for information on PAM problems or patches relating to
> Portable OpenSSH, I came across this previous posting to
> openssh-unix-dev:
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=96831742624299&w=2
> 
> The patch is against OpenSSH 1.2.3, but looks like a much more thorough
> implementation of PAM support.  I haven't tried integrating this into
> OpenSSH 2.2.0, however.  The interesting thing about this patch is that
> it appears to try to support user dialogue by exchanging messages
> between the server and client via the SSH protocol, so it could work for
> noninteractive sessions and engage in user interaction before a session
> pty has been set up.
 
What puts me off about this patch is that it changes the protocol to
suit PAM. I would rather shoehorn PAM into the SSH way of doing things.

-d


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