Why we can't login ? (fwd)

[Markus Friedl]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:48:42PM -0700, Tal Dayan wrote:
> Hi Jim,
> 
> Yes, we had the pam.d/sshd in place but the problem is that by default
> it does not install the PAM support at all. When we reinstalled it with the
> '--with-pam' switch of ./configure, it worked just fine.
> 
> I would expect the password authentication to be enabled by default since it
> a very common method of authentications.

PAM is different from unix to unix and from linux to linux.

this is why it's not enabled by default.