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Re: Any Account Logs In With Any Password



On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 05:16:51PM -0400, Brad Tilley wrote:
> While experimenting with PCI DSS on a default Debian Linux system, I
> found that when I comment out this line:
> 
> auth    required        pam_unix.so nullok_secure
> 
> in /etc/pam.d/common-auth, any account may ssh into the box by typing
> anything as the password. Is this the desired behavior? I would think
> that it would fail by default.

If no authentication modules are 'required', then no authentication is
required.  Makes sense to me.

noah

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