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Re: Big security hole in (my config of) PAM



On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 07:34:42AM +0800, John Darrington wrote:
> Whenever I add the line 
> 
> auth    required       pam_securetty.so

It is not due to this line.

> auth    sufficient      pam_unix.so nullok_secure 

This is the problem.  You are not requiring that people authenticate,
thus an incorrect password will not result in a hard failure.

You need to read the PAM documentation.

noah

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