Add caveats regarding the effect of PAM on PasswordAuthentication and

PermitRootLogin.

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav 2002-11-06 08:04:56 +00:00
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@ -132,6 +132,11 @@ Specifically, in
this controls the use of PAM (see
.Xr pam 3 )
for authentication.
Note that this affects the effectiveness of the
.Cm PasswordAuthentication
and
.Cm PermitRootLogin
variables.
The default is
.Dq yes .
.It Cm Ciphers
@ -426,6 +431,17 @@ are refused if the number of unauthenticated connections reaches
Specifies whether password authentication is allowed.
The default is
.Dq yes .
Note that
.Cm ChallengeResponseAuthentication
is
.Dq yes ,
and the PAM authentication policy for
.Nm sshd
includes
.Xr pam_unix 8 ,
password authentication will be allowed through the challenge-response
mechanism regardless of the value of
.Cm PasswordAuthentication .
.It Cm PermitEmptyPasswords
When password authentication is allowed, it specifies whether the
server allows login to accounts with empty password strings.
@ -442,6 +458,13 @@ or
.Dq no .
The default is
.Dq no .
Note that if
.Cm ChallengeResponseAuthentication
is
.Dq yes ,
the root user may be allowed in with its password even if
.Cm PermitRootLogin is set to
.Dq without-password .
.Pp
If this option is set to
.Dq without-password