Re: sshd with PAM; was PAM on 7.1 - pam_permit still requestspassword

["Thomas M. Payerle" <payerle physics umd edu>]

>  PAM on 7.1 - pam_permit still requests password
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> I am trying to set up a trusted host environment with ssh. All of the ssh
> stuff seems to work, but no amount of manipulation of the /etc/pam.d/sshd
> file appears to result in a no password login. The file currently contains
> only lines with required and pam_permit.so
> 
Are you sure that your sshd is PAM-enabled?  What version of sshd are you
using?  I do not think that F-Secure's uses PAM (I may be out of date on that),
while openssh may or may not depending on compile options.  I also recently
built opensshd and found that contrary to READMES, it did not seem to 
automatically build on my linux box with PAM enabled, and I had to explicitly
give --with-pam or some such on the configure line.  Not sure if that is
true in general or was a quirk with my machine.


Tom Payerle 	
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