Bug 1041

Summary:	Allow the admin to specify PAM service name
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Fabio Gomes de Souza <fabio>
Component:	PAM support	Assignee:	Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	fabio
Priority:	P2
Version:	-current
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux

Description Fabio Gomes de Souza 2005-05-17 01:52:53 AEST

It would be really nice if we could set the pam service name used instead of
'ssh' throuhg some PAMService parameter. 

This would allow for more flexible configurations, for example, using different
authentication backends for concurrent OpenSSH server instances on the same
machine with various IP address or different listening ports.

Thanks in advance and keep the great work. You guys rock.

Comment 1 Darren Tucker 2005-05-17 08:14:16 AEST

The main distribution already allows this, the PAM service is argv[0].  This
means that if you do "ln -s sshd testsshd" then run "/path/to/testsshd", it will
use the PAM service "testsshd".

Some vendors (eg Debian) hard-code SSHD_PAM_SERVICE during their build process.
 If this is the case for your system then you need to take it up with them.

Comment 2 Fabio Gomes de Souza 2005-05-17 10:38:04 AEST

Hmm, thank you, Darren. Sorry for the bogus bug report. Maybe I should have
asked on the mailing list first. 

Thanks again. :)

Comment 3 Darren Tucker 2005-05-17 10:42:50 AEST

OK, closing.

Comment 4 Darren Tucker 2006-10-07 11:40:20 AEST

Change all RESOLVED bug to CLOSED with the exception of the ones fixed post-4.4.