login(1) doesn't enforce times.allow/times.deny over ssh(1)

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Sun Jul 20 12:38:06 PDT 2003


On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Farid Hajji wrote:

> When using ssh, I'm not trying public/private keys,
> just plain unix passwords. Doesn't ssh access login(1)
> in this case?

sshd does not use login unless requested to do so by the UseLogin config
parameter.

There have been security vulnerabilities exposed by using this option in
the past.  You have been warned :)

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