Re: Any Account Logs In With Any Password

2010-10-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > On 10/27/2010 04:05 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Michael Loftis wrote: > >> checks prior to this indicate a soft success. If you remove > >> authentication from your system, its expected that any attempt to > >> access

Re: Any Account Logs In With Any Password

2010-10-27 Thread Jim P
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 19:16, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > On 10/27/2010 05:19 PM, Jim P wrote: >> Please move this thread to debian-u...@.  EOM > > I find it ironic you top post and don't trim while asking people to move > something to Debian-User. That was posted from a mobile device. This isn't.

Re: Any Account Logs In With Any Password

2010-10-27 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 10/27/2010 05:19 PM, Jim P wrote: > Please move this thread to debian-u...@. EOM I find it ironic you top post and don't trim while asking people to move something to Debian-User. This guy has what /he/ thinks is a /security issue/. According to Debian this list is: Discussions about /securi

Re: Any Account Logs In With Any Password

2010-10-27 Thread Jim P
Please move this thread to debian-u...@. EOM -Jim P. On Oct 27, 2010 6:16 PM, "Jordon Bedwell" wrote: > On 10/27/2010 04:05 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Michael Loftis wrote: >>> checks prior to this indicate a soft success. If you remove >>> authentication from

Re: Any Account Logs In With Any Password

2010-10-27 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 10/27/2010 04:05 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Michael Loftis wrote: >> checks prior to this indicate a soft success. If you remove >> authentication from your system, its expected that any attempt to >> access will pass, barring and specific denial. > > If I re

Re: Any Account Logs In With Any Password

2010-10-27 Thread Mark van Walraven
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 05:22:26PM -0400, Brad Tilley wrote: > I felt the same way. I understand that I removed authentication by > accidentally commenting out that line, but I thought that would cause > authentication to fail. Obviously, authentication is not succeeding, > it's just that authentic

Re: Any Account Logs In With Any Password

2010-10-27 Thread Luis M
Don't want to sound flame bait but... This is just a typical pebkac problem. As an admin you are always able to remove authentication from a system no matter how "safe" the failsafe is. How about: don't experiment with stuff that you don't fully understand? The original post was about doing so

Re: Any Account Logs In With Any Password

2010-10-27 Thread Brad Tilley
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Michael Loftis wrote: >> checks prior to this indicate a soft success. If you remove >> authentication from your system, its expected that any attempt to >> access will pass, barring and specific denial. > > If I remove authentication from

Re: Any Account Logs In With Any Password

2010-10-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Michael Loftis wrote: > checks prior to this indicate a soft success. If you remove > authentication from your system, its expected that any attempt to > access will pass, barring and specific denial. If I remove authentication from my system, I expect it to tell me to get lo

Re: Any Account Logs In With Any Password

2010-10-25 Thread Michael Loftis
Depends on your full stack, but yes, this is the PAM behavior as checks prior to this indicate a soft success. If you remove authentication from your system, its expected that any attempt to access will pass, barring and specific denial. --On Monday, October 25, 2010 17:16 -0400 Brad Tilley

Re: Any Account Logs In With Any Password

2010-10-25 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 05:16:51PM -0400, Brad Tilley wrote: > While experimenting with PCI DSS on a default Debian Linux system, I > found that when I comment out this line: > > authrequiredpam_unix.so nullok_secure > > in /etc/pam.d/common-auth, any account may ssh into the box by t

Any Account Logs In With Any Password

2010-10-25 Thread Brad Tilley
While experimenting with PCI DSS on a default Debian Linux system, I found that when I comment out this line: authrequiredpam_unix.so nullok_secure in /etc/pam.d/common-auth, any account may ssh into the box by typing anything as the password. Is this the desired behavior? I would thi