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Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version



]] Russ Allbery 

> Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> writes:
> > ]] Steve Langasek 
> 
> >> ssh is going to be the first problem in this regard, though I'm sure
> >> there will be others.  Has someone patched openssh to be cgroup-aware?
> 
> > This is most of what libpam-systemd does.  No need to patch sshd itself.
> 
> Er, "UsePAM no"?

That's «changing sshds configuration» which for most people is on a
completely different scale than patching the application itself.  UsePAM
yes is also the default nowadays.

> sshd has a bunch of non-PAM authentication mechanisms.  It is by no means
> guaranteed that everyone using sshd is using PAM.  Now, we can just say
> "that's broken, you're now required to use PAM," but this isn't a trivial
> change.  (Of course, as noted elsewhere, it may well be that systemd has
> some way of dealing with this already.)

You can use PAM sessions without using PAM auth, for instance if you're
using key authentication.

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are


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