[OpenAFS-devel] AFS and SSH once again

[Simon Wilkinson]

On 16 Nov 2007, at 23:12, Russ Allbery wrote:

>
> pam_afs creates a PAG and a token in a subprocess of ssh that is  
> discarded
> after authentication.  If this works on Solaris, I don't know how.

SunSSH doesn't use the same mechanism for intertwining the PAM and  
SSH event loops that OpenSSH uses. In particular, I believe that  
SunSSH preserves the behaviour that the authentication stack is  
executed by a process that is an ancestor of the child shell.

S.