Hi.This Debian bug ("ssh - password authentication never uses pam") has a corresponding upstream enhancement request (with patch):
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=874 -- Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au) GPG key 8FF4FA69 / D9A3 86E9 7EEE AF4B B2D4 37C9 C982 80C7 8FF4 FA69 Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement.