Re: [tlug] openssh on Centos 5.2

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On 2009-08-19 21:09 +0900 (Wed), Edward Middleton wrote:

> Curt Sampson wrote:
> > Edward Middleton wrote:
> >> You also want to make sure UsePAM is set to no.
> > 
> > Oh, no, is this present in some versions of Linux, too? I know that on
> > NetBSD systems, UsePAM defaulted to yes, and the 'PasswordAuthentication
> > no' was ignored in this state, but last time I checked on Ubuntu,
> > password logins were still denied with 'UsePAM yes'. In fact, I just
> > checked again on a 9.10 system, and that seems still to be the case.
> 
> Every version of RHEL/CentOS I have had the ahh.. pleasure of installing
> has set UsePAM yes and allowed root login.

Yes, but if you re-read the above, my question is that, if both
'UsePAM yes' and 'PasswordAuthentication no' are set, does it allow
password authentication anyway? On Ubuntu 9.04 systems, if you set
'PasswordAuthentication no', even if 'UsePAM yes' is set, it still will
not allow password logins.

cjs
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