openssh unix dev - Jul 2000 - PAM on OPenBSD for OpenSSH?

I know this is slightly off-topic.

I'm looking at a way to use PAM with OpenSSH, on OpenBSD 2.7 (which
at the moment as far as I can tell has no PAM support).

I wonder how hard it would be to spoof the config of the portable 
OpenSSH into thinking it was on something that supported PAM, and 
then having a wrapper of some sort to connect to a PAM module?

Some background: I have a requirement to allow ssh (prefeably OpenSSH)
into an OpenBSD box, using radius authentication.  I know of a good
PAM radius module which will work on Solaris and GNU/Linux, but I
want to get it working on OpenBSD also (as that's what I'm using
for a remote client site firewall ... I know, radius may not be 
ideal for this, but combined with IPsec it's "pretty secure".

Thanks for any clues or suggestions.

Carl

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000 carl at bl.echidna.id.au wrote:
> 
> I know this is slightly off-topic.
> 
> I'm looking at a way to use PAM with OpenSSH, on OpenBSD 2.7 (which
> at the moment as far as I can tell has no PAM support).
> 
> I wonder how hard it would be to spoof the config of the portable 
> OpenSSH into thinking it was on something that supported PAM, and 
> then having a wrapper of some sort to connect to a PAM module?
> 
I suggest picking up and compiling the PAM package from your favorate
Linux archives.  And then you should be able to get OpenSSH portable
to link against it and use it.  While every of your normal services are
supported normally.

Graned, this adds confusing to the mix, and would be generally frowned
on.  But it's a solution.

Ben Lindstrom