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Re: Openssh 1.2pre17-1 broken?



On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 08:16:13AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On 14/12/99 hservoma@wis02.ec.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp wrote:
> 
> >This is interesting, where did you read about /etc/pam.d/ssh -> sshd ?
> 
> normally a pam service will look for a file with the name name as the 
> binary, so sshd will load pam.d/sshd, this can be overridden in the 
> service program by changing the call to PAM_INIT (or someting like 
> that) the debian maintainer does this himself as he wishes to keep 
> the pam file called ssh not sshd.
> 

No, it uses the first arg of the pam_start() function in the source.
Usually this is the name of the service, and most programs use the same
name that would be found it /etc/services for their program. In the case
of sshd it should be "ssh".

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