Keyboard-interactive authentication from a PAM module

[Darren Tucker]

Josele Lerele wrote:
> I am using version 5.1. I know you can send information through the 
> banner, but I would like to send dynamic information from the PAM 
> module.

I wasn't refering to the banner file.  The PAM code uses the banner 
protocol message to send data provided by PAM under some conditions when 
there's no prompt.

> Do you think this is possible without prompting something in the 
> client?

Depends on what PAM passes sshd.

Could you please you compile and run (as root) this little test program 
to show what PAM's doing and post the output?  (Sanity checking the code 
first is recommended.  It doesn't set noecho so you want to make sure 
there's nobody watching over shoulders, and obviously clip any sensitive 
bits from the output.)

http://www.zip.com.au/~dtucker/patches/pam-test-harness.c

A few other random questions:

- what platform is this running on?  Probably will not make a difference 
but it might help.

- what does your PAM config look like for sshd?

- is the module source publicly available?  (ie can I reproduce this 
configuration?)

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