On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Guillaume Rousse <[email protected]> wrote: > # WARNING: 'UsePAM no' is not supported in Mageia and may cause several > # problems. > I wonder about the usefulness of such comment... > > What does means 'not supported' ? The software has been patched, and its > behaviour changed in such a way that it will not work as documented ? Or any > bug report on bugzilla will automatically result in a question 'did you > change UsePAM directive in sshd' before even attempting to identify end user > problem ? > > And as changing ANY configuration directive in ANY software may result in > problems, what's the point of a specific warning here ? > > So, what's the added value of this comment over default configuration ?
I believe the tools used to set some options (like PermitRootLogin) which are ignored when UsePAM is true
