bug-1215

[Damien Miller]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, Sachin Gupta wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I am a newbie here.
> I am supposed to upgrade openssh with pam user authentication enabled on
> centos 5.2 machine.
> I was wondering patches mentioned in the following bug are available in
> openssh 6.5.
> https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215
> 
> Or do I need to apply these patches on openssh 6.5 source code ?

OpenSSH doesn't include those patches (and won't), so if you want them
you'll have to apply them yourself.

Instead of these patches, I'd recommend you use a nss module to provide
username to account mapping. Then you can use unpatched OpenSSH.

-d