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RE: PAM auth and account with openssh

Subject: RE: PAM auth and account with openssh
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:24:37 +0800
Could you try:

#PasswordAuthentication yes
PasswordAuthentication no

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Victor Engle [mailto:vic@summerseas.com] 
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 4:22 AM
To: Tay, Gary; SSH list
Subject: Re: PAM auth and account with openssh


Tay, Gary wrote:

If you think there is issue in SSH, you should also post sshd_config
and ssh_config to the mail list. Look at messages and /var/log/auth.log
for extra info also.
 




Here are the config files...

sshd_config
# This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file.  See
# sshd_config(5) for more information.

# This sshd was compiled with 
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin

# The strategy used for options in the default sshd_config shipped with
# OpenSSH is to specify options with their default value where
# possible, but leave them commented.  Uncommented options change a
# default value.

#Port 22
#Protocol 2,1
#ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
#ListenAddress ::

# HostKey for protocol version 1
#HostKey /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key
# HostKeys for protocol version 2
#HostKey /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key
#HostKey /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key

# Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key
#KeyRegenerationInterval 1h
#ServerKeyBits 768

# Logging
#obsoletes QuietMode and FascistLogging
#SyslogFacility AUTH
#LogLevel INFO

# Authentication:

#LoginGraceTime 2m
#PermitRootLogin yes
#StrictModes yes
#MaxAuthTries 6

#RSAAuthentication yes
#PubkeyAuthentication yes
#AuthorizedKeysFile     .ssh/authorized_keys

# For this to work you will also need host keys in 
/usr/local/etc/ssh_known_hosts
#RhostsRSAAuthentication no
# similar for protocol version 2
#HostbasedAuthentication no
# Change to yes if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for
# RhostsRSAAuthentication and HostbasedAuthentication
#IgnoreUserKnownHosts no
# Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files
#IgnoreRhosts yes

# To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!
#PasswordAuthentication yes
#PermitEmptyPasswords no

# Change to no to disable s/key passwords
#ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes

# Kerberos options
#KerberosAuthentication no
#KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes
#KerberosTicketCleanup yes
#KerberosGetAFSToken no

# GSSAPI options
#GSSAPIAuthentication no
#GSSAPICleanupCredentials yes

# Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM authentication, account processing,
# and session processing. If this is enabled, PAM authentication will
# be allowed through the ChallengeResponseAuthentication mechanism.
# Depending on your PAM configuration, this may bypass the setting of
# PasswordAuthentication, PermitEmptyPasswords, and
# "PermitRootLogin without-password". If you just want the PAM account
and
# session checks to run without PAM authentication, then enable this but

set
# ChallengeResponseAuthentication=no
UsePAM yes

#AllowTcpForwarding yes
#GatewayPorts no
#X11Forwarding no
#X11DisplayOffset 10
#X11UseLocalhost yes
#PrintMotd yes
#PrintLastLog yes
#TCPKeepAlive yes
#UseLogin no
#UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
#PermitUserEnvironment no
#Compression yes
#ClientAliveInterval 0
#ClientAliveCountMax 3
#UseDNS yes
#PidFile /var/run/sshd.pid
#MaxStartups 10

# no default banner path
#Banner /some/path

# override default of no subsystems
Subsystem       sftp    /usr/local/libexec/sftp-server


ssh_config

# This is the ssh client system-wide configuration file.  See
# ssh_config(5) for more information.  This file provides defaults for
# users, and the values can be changed in per-user configuration files
# or on the command line.

# Configuration data is parsed as follows:
#  1. command line options
#  2. user-specific file
#  3. system-wide file
# Any configuration value is only changed the first time it is set.
# Thus, host-specific definitions should be at the beginning of the
# configuration file, and defaults at the end.

# Site-wide defaults for various options

# Host *
#   ForwardAgent no
#   ForwardX11 no
#   RhostsRSAAuthentication no
#   RSAAuthentication yes
#   PasswordAuthentication yes
#   HostbasedAuthentication no
#   BatchMode no
#   CheckHostIP yes
#   AddressFamily any
#   ConnectTimeout 0
#   StrictHostKeyChecking ask
#   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/identity
#   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
#   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa
#   Port 22
#   Protocol 2,1
#   Cipher 3des
#   Ciphers 
aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-c
bc
#   EscapeChar ~

      -----Original Message----- 
      From: Victor Engle [mailto:vic@summerseas.com] 
      Sent: Fri 1/28/2005 9:27 PM 
      To: SSH list 
      Cc: 
      Subject: PAM auth and account with openssh
      
      

      Hi,
      
      I have a Sun LDAP server version 5.2 that I am using as a
solaris naming
      service. Everything is working as expected except for a problem
with
      sshd and pam. With the following entries in pam.conf everything
works
      well except that password expiration from the ldap server is
ignored.
      
      sshd   auth requisite          pam_authtok_get.so.1
      sshd   auth required           pam_dhkeys.so.1
      sshd   auth sufficient         pam_unix_auth.so.1
      sshd   auth required           pam_ldap.so.1 try_first_pass
      sshd   account required        pam_unix_account.so.1
      
      If I use the following entries in pam.conf everything works
including
      password expiration unless I use a public key for
authentication. If I
      have a public key in place I am unable to log in. I get prompted
for a
      password and that fails. If I remove the public key I am
prompted for a
      password and get successfully authenticated.
      
      sshd   auth requisite          pam_authtok_get.so.1
      sshd   auth required           pam_dhkeys.so.1
      sshd   auth sufficient         pam_unix_auth.so.1
      sshd   auth required           pam_ldap.so.1 try_first_pass
      sshd   account sufficient              pam_ldap.so.1
      sshd  account binding                pam_unix_account.so.1
server_policy
      
      
      Here is the ssh client debug output from trying to login with
the public
      key and the above pam.conf entries.
      
      [vengle@datamart-->]ssh -v  sniper
      OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004
      debug1: Reading configuration data /usr/local/etc/ssh_config
      debug1: Connecting to sniper [66.43.143.232] port 22.
      debug1: Connection established.
      debug1: identity file /home/vengle/.ssh/identity type -1
      debug1: identity file /home/vengle/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
      debug1: identity file /home/vengle/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
      debug1: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version
OpenSSH_3.9p1
      debug1: match: OpenSSH_3.9p1 pat OpenSSH*
      debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
      debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.9p1
      debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
      debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
      debug1: kex: server->client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
      debug1: kex: client->server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
      debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent
      debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
      debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
      debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
      debug1: Host 'sniper' is known and matches the RSA host key.
      debug1: Found key in /home/vengle/.ssh/known_hosts:3
      debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
      debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
      debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
      debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
      debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
      debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
      debug1: Authentications that can continue:
      publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
      debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
      debug1: Trying private key: /home/vengle/.ssh/identity
      debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA
      debug1: Authentications that can continue:
      publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
      debug1: Offering public key: /home/vengle/.ssh/id_rsa
      debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 149
      debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA
      debug1: Authentications that can continue:
      publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
      debug1: Trying private key: /home/vengle/.ssh/id_dsa
      debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive
      Password:
      
      
      The server accepts the key but continues to try to authenticate
me. Any
      help or direction would be greatly appreciated.
      
      Thanks,
      Vic Engle
      

 


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