Revised OpenSSH Security Advisory (adv.iss)

Steve VanDevender stevev at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Thu Jun 27 05:39:50 EST 2002


Pekka Savola writes:
 > On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Markus Friedl wrote:
 > > 	and
 > > 
 > > 	Disable PAMAuthenticationViaKbdInt in sshd_config.
 > 
 > 
 > I'd rather say:
 > 
 > 	Make sure PAMAuthenticationViaKbdInt has not been enabled
 > 	in sshd_config.
 > 
 > (as it defaults to off, contrary to ChallengeResponseAuthentication), but 
 > that's just a minor clarification.

I think the announcement is fine the way it is.  Having an explicit
"PAMAuthenticationViaKbdInt no" in sshd_config is a lot less ambiguous
than assuming it's disabled by default.



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