- (dtucker) [README.platform] Document the interaction between PermitRootLogin

   and the AIX native login restrictions.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/README.platform b/README.platform
index 7accea48e..3d7db1494 100644
--- a/README.platform
+++ b/README.platform
@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ define the environment variable blibpath before running configure, eg
 blibpath=/lib:/usr/lib:/opt/freeware/lib ./configure \
   --with-ssl-dir=/opt/freeware --with-zlib=/opt/freeware
 
+If sshd is built with the WITH_AIXAUTHENTICATE option (which is enabled
+by default) then sshd checks that users are permitted via the
+loginrestrictions() function, in particular that the user has the
+"rlogin" attribute set.  This check is not done for the root account,
+instead the PermitRootLogin setting in sshd_config is used.
+
 
 Cygwin
 ------
@@ -75,4 +81,4 @@ account stacks which will prevent authentication entirely, but will still
 return the output from pam_nologin to the client.
 
 
-$Id: README.platform,v 1.8 2007/03/13 10:00:45 dtucker Exp $
+$Id: README.platform,v 1.9 2007/08/09 04:31:53 dtucker Exp $