Subject: Re: PAM enabled on head
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@lists.veego.de>
List: current-users
Date: 03/08/2005 07:28:10
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 11:17:29PM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
[..]

> We have changed PAM to fail closed. I.e. a missing PAM configuration will
> default to fail authentication as opposed to allow it. We are still
> thinking of adding even more strict checks in the authentication path, so
> that incorrect configurations will not default to allow someone access.

So this means that you can no longer login if you don't have an /etc/pam.d
or an empty one?

Bernd