SSHD and PAM

[Sudarshan Soma]

HI, I do see some refernce on it: but seems not closed
https://marc.info/?l=secure-shell&m=115513863409952&w=2

http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215


Is this patch available in latest versions, 7.6?


On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 1:48 PM, Sudarshan Soma <sudarshan12s at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi I am trying to write pam_radius module which talks to RADIUS server for
> aaa.
>
> I see sshd checks /etc/passwd for user list. Since RADIUS server has user
> list, can sshd ignore this check for RADIUS/TACACS+ authentication, Please
> suggest if there are any flags to control it.
>
> I am using the following versions.
> OpenSSH_6.6p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2n  7 Dec 2017
>
> I see sssd (NAS) being used for such use cases, how does sshd ignore
> /etc/passwd in those cases.
> Please suggest
>
> Regards,
> Ivan.
>