Does a known security issue allow ssh login via system accounts?

Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL uri at ll.mit.edu
Tue Mar 8 04:50:43 AEDT 2022


> >That's a nice thing about pam_yubico with real Yubikeys:
> >they can be validated against the Yubico cloud API,
> >without any local secrets.
>
> Just to make sure I understand you correctly - a cloud
> service determines whether some access to your server
> is to be granted?

A cloud service *authenticates* the user. It's the job of *other* PAM modules and configuration to decide what to *authorize* this authenticated identity for, including login.

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