OpenSSH -> PAM -> Password Prompt

[Damien Miller]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 guyverdh at mchsi.com wrote:

> Now, I realize that this is more a PAM functionality, than anything to do with
> OpenSSH, however, I was curious to know whether or not something could be done
> to make PAM's password prompt read more like the known and liked OpenSSH
> password prompt   
> 
> User at System's Password:

Not really, for sshd to change this would mean hiding the prompt as 
supplied by PAM, which could contain useful information. E.g. when using 
one time passwords or tokens.

Your best bet would be to pester the PAM module author to add a flag to 
the PAM module to get it produce these prompts.

-d