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...sults in all login attempts failing. Clearly sshd knows how to do password auth without PAM because it works even when PAM is disabled, so I wonder if there is some way to request that "password" does not use PAM even when PAM is enabled? Ideally one could specify something like password:nopam password:builtin Or another solution would be to allow multiple different PAM modules to be called instead of requiring it all to be lumped into /etc/pam.d/sshd. Then one could specify something like PAMFiles /etc/pam.d/sshd* AuthenticationMethods keyboard-interactive:pam:sshd-pass,keyboard-inter...