OpenSSH -> PAM -> Password Prompt

Ben Lindstrom mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org
Sat Feb 7 09:57:38 EST 2004



On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Carson Gaspar wrote:

> --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).
>

I'd rather see see the change done at the PAM code level.  I'm not
thrilled about the idea of randomly appending/prefixing PAM chatter with
stuff.

- Ben




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