PAM authentication

[Damien Miller]

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, [ISO-8859-1] SørenHansen wrote:
> 
> I find it annoying that openssh takes active part in the authentication
> process when using PAM. Namely, SSH doesn't pass the user's password if
> the getpwent for the user returns NULL. 

This has been covered many times on this list before. In short: if you
want nss-like functionality then use nss, not pam.

-d