[Gllug] SSH is Not Secure!

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Wed Jul 25 12:07:37 UTC 2001


On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:42:36PM +0000, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> > Oh. If that's the case I must have misunderstood the bugtraq thread :(
> 
> You didn't. The major bug is that the affected commercial SSH version
> makes no attempt to check for *'d accounts.

I have to admit, my first response seems a little naive now - I thought SSH
on Linux would use PAM. 

That's pretty poor if it doesn't (by default, that is - I'll eat my hat if
it can't be configured for PAM authentication).

Cheers,

Alex.

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