Hi folks, I meant to send this in to the devel list a while ago (1 Jul, actually) but school has until recently had a strangehold on me. The issue is this: the sshd.pam.generic in the openssh-2.1.1p4/contrib directory can be modified to suit standard SuSE 6.4 configurations as thus: {crimsun@[dhcp1520]:~} diff -c /etc/pam.d/sshd openssh-2.1.1p4/contrib/sshd.pam.generic *** /etc/pam.d/sshd Sat Jul 1 19:52:23 2000 --- openssh-2.1.1p4/contrib/sshd.pam.generic Tue Mar 14 20:25:06 2000 *************** *** 1,8 **** #%PAM-1.0 ! auth required /lib/security/pam_unix_auth.so shadow nodelay auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so ! account required /lib/security/pam_unix_acct.so password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so ! password required /lib/security/pam_unix_passwd.so shadow use_authtok ! session required /lib/security/pam_unix_session.so session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so --- 1,8 ---- #%PAM-1.0 ! auth required /lib/security/pam_unix.so shadow nodelay auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so ! account required /lib/security/pam_unix.so password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so ! password required /lib/security/pam_unix.so shadow nullok use_authtok ! session required /lib/security/pam_unix.so session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so Sorry if the formatting makes things unclear. The sshd.pam.generic included in the 2.1.1p4 tarball is adequately functional on stock SuSE 6.4 systems but does not log to syslog via PRIORITY when a sshd session has been closed. The changes above rectify that. (Note: I've taken the liberty of disallowing null passwords for my machine.) This is a SuSE Linux-specific diff, but I thought I'd let everyone know just in case someone had run across it and was scratching his/her head. :) dtc --- Daniel T. Chen crimsun at adirondack.masticators.org