Why we can't login ? (fwd)

[Tal Dayan]

Yes, I understand the technical reason, and it is probably very challenging
to support so many derivatives of Unix. However, password authentication is
a key feature of SSH and Redhat Linux is one of the primary platforms
on which Openssh is used.

Isn't it the job of the 'configure' step to customize the configuration to
specifics of the platform in use ? Having it making an intelligent decision
regarding the PAM, at least for few common platforms, will be appreciated
by many users.

Tal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus Friedl [mailto:markus.friedl at informatik.uni-erlangen.de]
> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 5:36 AM
> To: Tal Dayan
> Cc: Jim Knoble; openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org; ted_jmt at zapta.com
> Subject: Re: Why we can't login ? (fwd)
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:48:42PM -0700, Tal Dayan wrote:
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > Yes, we had the pam.d/sshd in place but the problem is that by default
> > it does not install the PAM support at all. When we reinstalled
> it with the
> > '--with-pam' switch of ./configure, it worked just fine.
> >
> > I would expect the password authentication to be enabled by
> default since it
> > a very common method of authentications.
>
> PAM is different from unix to unix and from linux to linux.
>
> this is why it's not enabled by default.
>