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2009 Sep 08
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openssh, pam, challenge-response problem
...quest and type
PAM_PROMPT_ECHO_ON, to present the challenge-request to user and to
retrieve the challenge-response.
OpenSSH sets the PAM_CONV function to sshpam_passwd_conv() (defined in
pam_auth.c). But this function doesn't have implemented the
PAM_PROMPT_ECHO_ON flavor, and returns the PAM_CONV_ERROR :-(
It should be possible to implement the PAM_PROMPT_ECHO_ON conversation
either with read()/write() or with fdopen()/fprintf()/fgets()/fclose()
(as is done similary for stdin in sshpam_tty_conv()), but we need the
socket. The only way to pass the information into the pam module is by
Authct...