Willis, Ben wrote:
> I have seen in the archives that several people have tried to use
> this module with OpenSSH. Now that the LTSP project has moved to LDM
> with SSH tunnels in Edubuntu I wondered if the issue with ssh
> requiring a local account to already exist could be revisited? Even
> though I know that the opinion has been that the module is 'broken'
> because some people believe that PAM should be used purely for
> authentication this limitation is making it VERY hard for those of us
> in the Education IT field.
>
> Would it be possible to have a fix for this that could be applied if
> one wished?
See: http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215
There's a patch for sshd and also some pointers to alternate solutions.
If you test the patch then please report your experiences (good or
bad), preferably by adding a comment to the bug.
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