- (dtucker) [sshd.8] Bug #843: Add warning about PasswordAuthentication to

UsePAM section.  Parts from djm@ and jmc@.
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Darren Tucker 2004-05-13 16:51:40 +10:00
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- dtucker@cvs.openbsd.org 2004/05/13 02:47:50
[ssh-agent.1]
Add examples to ssh-agent.1, bz#481 from Ralf Hauser; ok deraadt@
- (dtucker) [sshd.8] Bug #843: Add warning about PasswordAuthentication to
UsePAM section. Parts from djm@ and jmc@.
20040502
- (dtucker) OpenBSD CVS Sync
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- (djm) Trim deprecated options from INSTALL. Mention UsePAM
- (djm) Fix quote handling in sftp; Patch from admorten AT umich.edu
$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.3351 2004/05/13 06:45:46 dtucker Exp $
$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.3352 2004/05/13 06:51:40 dtucker Exp $

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@ -624,12 +624,25 @@ If
.Cm UsePrivilegeSeparation
is specified, it will be disabled after authentication.
.It Cm UsePAM
Enables PAM authentication (via challenge-response) and session set up.
If you enable this, you should probably disable
.Cm PasswordAuthentication .
If you enable
.CM UsePAM
then you will not be able to run sshd as a non-root user. The default is
Enables the Pluggable Authentication Module interface.
If set to
.Dq yes
this will enable PAM authentication using
.Cm ChallengeResponseAuthentication
and PAM account and session module processing for all authentication types.
.Pp
Because PAM challenge-response authentication usually serves an equivalent
role to password authentication, you should disable either
.Cm PasswordAuthentication
or
.Cm ChallengeResponseAuthentication.
.Pp
If
.Cm UsePAM
is enabled, you will not be able to run
.Xr sshd 8
as a non-root user.
The default is
.Dq no .
.It Cm UsePrivilegeSeparation
Specifies whether