ssh daemon fails to call pam when user does not exist in /etc/passwd

[Jayarama Vijay Kumar]

Darren Tucker wrote:

> Darren Tucker wrote:
> [about PAM without getpwnam()]
>
>> I posted a patch for this a while back (attached). It's only been 
>> lightly tested but it's worth a try.
>
>
> Correction: this patch will cause PAM to be called for 
> keyboard-interactive in that case (so it won't leak information about 
> whether or not the account is permitted to log in) but it still won't 
> actually permit the login.
>
I just tested the patch. Though it manages to call pam, the login is not 
completed. It looks like we need to somehow get non-local account info 
thru getpwnam.

thanx for the help.
vijay