PAM Service Name Patch

Mark D. Roth roth+openssh at feep.net
Sat Apr 21 01:33:58 EST 2001


On Mon Apr 16 22:08 2001 +0200, Kevin Steves wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Mark D. Roth wrote:
> : > I've attached a patch relative to OpenSSH 2.5.1p1 which sets the
> : > default PAM service name to __progname instead of the hard-coded value
> : > "sshd".  This allows you to have multiple invokations of sshd under
> : > different names, each with its own PAM configuration.
> :
> : I just noticed that this patch is still not in the current CVS tree.
> : Did it just get overlooked, or is there some problem with it?
> 
> did we agree that there were no security issues with that patch?  i
> think so, and i don't see any problem with it.

It looks like the consensus is that there's no problem with the
patch.  Can we get it applied?  Thanks!

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Mark D. Roth <roth at feep.net>
http://www.feep.net/~roth/



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