openssh and pam_ldap
Jason McCormick
jason at devrandom.org
Fri Apr 30 05:18:18 EST 2004
> Of course, one can turn on UsePAM, but the warnings in sshd_config
> make me nervous. Also, running a few tests, it's a little too
> insecure for my liking.
If you're going to use pam_ldap you're going to have to set UsePAM =
yes. Else ssh isn't going to contact your PAM stack to do anything.
UsePAM used to default to 'yes' until 3.8p1. If you have UsePAM = no,
then SSH will only try to use shadow passwords.
-- Jason
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