ftpd and AFS tickets

Nick M. Williams Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com
Tue Apr 23 13:58:50 EDT 2002


Simon's patches for OpenSSH use PAM. I believe the Solaris telnetd and
friends do as well, yes, even with kerberos-authenticated clients. The
key is to either not bother calling pam_authenticate() (the user *is*
authenticated already) or call it but use a PAM_SERVICE name configured
to just return PAM_SUCCESS immediately from pam_authenticate().

And the point of this is that kerberized network daemons can use
pam_setcred() to share a clients' credentials with interested
modules, such as AFS PAM modules, say. :)

Cheers,

Nico


On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 01:19:47PM -0400, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> But if you're doing GSSAPI, then pam is never being invoked, right?
> Are users typing cleartext passwords inside of ssh?
> 
> --Ken
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