Bug#248133: Debian bug #248133: sshd: access denied: tty 'ssh' is not secure

["Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe" <Mario.Holbe@RZ.TU-Ilmenau.DE>]

Hello,

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 04:24:57PM +1000, Darren Tucker wrote:
> 	Your pam_securetty problem might be due to other pam configs being 
> loaded by pam_stack, check /etc/pam.d/sshd.  You could also add "ssh" to 

Ah, thanks for the hint.
It gets called by pam_unix because of nullok_secure:
pam_unix/support.c:434
	if ((retval == 1) && on(UNIX_NULLOK_SECURE, ctrl)) {
...
		if (_pammodutil_tty_secure(uttyname) !=  PAM_SUCCESS)

> /etc/securetty.

I didn't do this so far, because I didn't know if there
are some strange side effects with it.
I'll reassign the bug to libpam-modules.


regards,
   Mario
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