ssh public keys and pam

Ian Mortimer ian at physics.uq.edu.au
Tue Oct 25 04:26:19 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 23:40 +0000, Daniel Jacober wrote:

> So Ian if I understand your posting right there's no way to pass this
> to a PAM - Module
> because it would require direct interaction between the PAM-Module and
> the SSH - client.
>
> The PAM - Module would have to play the ssh - Server sending an
> encrypted challange
> to the client requesting for authentication.
> 
> Is that right?

I'm not an expert in ssh or pam internals but it seems like it might 
be possible if you could get the ssh server and pam to cooperate.
Sounds like it might be difficult though.


-- 
Ian




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