Proposal to add a DisableAuthentication option to sshd ServerOptions

Carson Gaspar carson at taltos.org
Fri Jun 28 00:52:37 AEST 2024


On 6/26/2024 9:34 PM, Henry Qin wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've recently started to work on a patch for openssh that introduces a new
> option to disable authentication.
> I'd like to explain why I think this might be generally useful, and solicit
> opinions on whether such a patch would be acceptable to the maintainers as
> a pull request.

Why not just use a different PAM stack? The new release allows 
specifying the stack name. This should do what you want with no code 
changes using Password / KbdInteractive AuthN.

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Carson



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