Changing PAM service name in sshd_config, or running sshd as non-root

[Michael Tokarev]

Jim Knoble wrote:
> Circa 2003-03-26 19:25:25 +0300 dixit Michael Tokarev:
> 
> : Currently, openssh's PAM service name is a compile-time choice.
> 
>   [...]
> 
> : So, that to say - why there is no e.g. PamServiceName configuration
> : option in sshd_config?
> 
> There is one, it's just called something different:
> 
>   ln -s /path/to/sshd /path/to/your-favorite-ssh-service-name
> 
> OpenSSH's sshd uses the basename of argv[0] as the service name, as you
> would know if you were to read the INSTALL file that accompanies
> OpenSSH-3.5p1.

In my /etc/pam.d/, there is no file named `sshd', but there is a file
`ssh' (without trailing `d').  Yet sshd works.

Well, that's may be due to the fact that I use openssh that comes with
debian woody, i.e. openssh-3.4p1.

Either way, it would be much more reliable if sshd will use e.g.
PamServiceName from sshd_config.

/mjt