Re: Probem with openssh and pam modules

[Giacomo Mulas <gmulas@ca.astro.it>]

	since openssh v3.3 was released, I never got it to work well with
PAM. I think it has something to do with privilege separation, whereby
the listening daemon is unable to use PAM due to insufficient privileges,
since it is running as an unprivileged user. Is PAMAuthenticationViaKbdInt
enabled? Try disabling just that. From README.Debian in
/usr/share/doc/ssh:

"Unfortunately, privilege separation interacts badly with PAM. Any PAM
session modules that need to run as root (pam_mkhomedir, for example)
will fail, and PAM keyboard-interactive authentication won't work."


Bye
Giacomo

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