From 1dcff9a3a8891db8d7fce77e43e675ce60e0fe44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Darren Tucker <dtucker@zip.com.au>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 16:51:40 +1000
Subject: [PATCH]  - (dtucker) [sshd.8] Bug #843: Add warning about
 PasswordAuthentication to    UsePAM section.  Parts from djm@ and jmc@.

---
 ChangeLog     |  4 +++-
 sshd_config.5 | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7ccb6f241..7defe636c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
    - dtucker@cvs.openbsd.org 2004/05/13 02:47:50
      [ssh-agent.1]
      Add examples to ssh-agent.1, bz#481 from Ralf Hauser; ok deraadt@
+ - (dtucker) [sshd.8] Bug #843: Add warning about PasswordAuthentication to
+   UsePAM section.  Parts from djm@ and jmc@.
 
 20040502
  - (dtucker) OpenBSD CVS Sync
@@ -1110,4 +1112,4 @@
    - (djm) Trim deprecated options from INSTALL. Mention UsePAM
    - (djm) Fix quote handling in sftp; Patch from admorten AT umich.edu
 
-$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.3351 2004/05/13 06:45:46 dtucker Exp $
+$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.3352 2004/05/13 06:51:40 dtucker Exp $
diff --git a/sshd_config.5 b/sshd_config.5
index f8aa0f2f3..05558c569 100644
--- a/sshd_config.5
+++ b/sshd_config.5
@@ -624,12 +624,25 @@ If
 .Cm UsePrivilegeSeparation
 is specified, it will be disabled after authentication.
 .It Cm UsePAM
-Enables PAM authentication (via challenge-response) and session set up.
-If you enable this, you should probably disable
-.Cm PasswordAuthentication .
-If you enable
-.CM UsePAM
-then you will not be able to run sshd as a non-root user.  The default is
+Enables the Pluggable Authentication Module interface.
+If set to
+.Dq yes
+this will enable PAM authentication using
+.Cm ChallengeResponseAuthentication
+and PAM account and session module processing for all authentication types.
+.Pp
+Because PAM challenge-response authentication usually serves an equivalent
+role to password authentication, you should disable either
+.Cm PasswordAuthentication
+or
+.Cm ChallengeResponseAuthentication.
+.Pp
+If
+.Cm UsePAM
+is enabled, you will not be able to run
+.Xr sshd 8
+as a non-root user.
+The default is
 .Dq no .
 .It Cm UsePrivilegeSeparation
 Specifies whether