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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] absurd comment in default sshd configuration file</H1>
    <B>Pascal Terjan</B> 
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    <I>Tue May 15 16:11:49 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Guillaume Rousse
&lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">guillomovitch at gmail.com</A>&gt; wrote:
&gt;<i> # WARNING: 'UsePAM no' is not supported in Mageia and may cause several
</I>&gt;<i> # problems.
</I>&gt;<i> I wonder about the usefulness of such comment...
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</I>&gt;<i> What does means 'not supported' ? The software has been patched, and its
</I>&gt;<i> behaviour changed in such a way that it will not work as documented ? Or any
</I>&gt;<i> bug report on bugzilla will automatically result in a question 'did you
</I>&gt;<i> change UsePAM directive in sshd' before even attempting to identify end user
</I>&gt;<i> problem ?
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</I>&gt;<i> And as changing ANY configuration directive in ANY software may result in
</I>&gt;<i> problems, what's the point of a specific warning here ?
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> So, what's the added value of this comment over default configuration ?
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I believe the tools used to set some options (like PermitRootLogin)
which are ignored when UsePAM is true
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