OpenSSH -> PAM -> Password Prompt

Carson Gaspar carson at taltos.org
Sat Feb 7 08:34:04 EST 2004


--On Saturday, February 07, 2004 08:24:35 +1100 Damien Miller 
<djm at mindrot.org> wrote:

> 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.

OpenSSH could prefix all prompts with "user at host: " (not that I'm really 
advocating this, but it's an option).

-- 
Carson




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