From 6f6b27d515a1807086e59a8918eb0ca8c1cea398 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Darren Tucker Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 14:31:53 +1000 Subject: - (dtucker) [README.platform] Document the interaction between PermitRootLogin and the AIX native login restrictions. --- README.platform | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README.platform') 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 $ -- cgit v1.2.3