Re: [PAM] Should `ssh' depend on `libpwdb'?

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

Torsten Landschoff <t.landschoff@gmx.net> writes:

> On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 08:12:33PM +0000, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > I tried to uninstall it, but found that `ssh' and `ssh2' depend on it.
> > Shouldn't they be configured to use the normal "unix" auth plugins?
> > Is this a "bug" against `ssh' and `ssh2'?  (Should I file it?)
> 
> I would say so. IIRC Ben Collins has taken maintainership of libpam. He
> should know better...

This looks like a throwback to the time when /etc/pam.d/ssh used
pam_pwdb.so modules.  Since this now uses the pam_unix*.so modules,
the dependency looks spurious to me, I'll take it out, and see what
happens.

Cheers, Phil.