[Bug 117] OpenSSH second-guesses PAM

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http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117





------- Additional Comments From djm at mindrot.org  2002-04-17 23:39 -------
> You are eliminating the possibility that sshd might want to authenticate
> someone without a local account (requesting a non-login service?).

PAM shouldn't be abused to to be a getpw* replacement. Quoth
http://www.opengroup.org/tech/rfc/mirror-rfc/rfc86.0.txt:

] (c) We do not address the source of information obtained from the
] "`getXbyY()'" family of calls (e.g., `getpwnam()').



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