On Oct 7, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Chris wrote: > On 7/10/06 W Lane wrote: >> I would not say dead, but rather quiet. > > OK then, I'll try to liven it up :-) > > Can anyone tell me anything about PAM authentication? I don't know much, but this looks like something I ought to find out about. I managed to google up a few interesting items: http://itso.iu.edu/SSH_Back_Door_on_Public_Mac_OS_X_Computers sewpsc.sewp.nasa.gov/documents/ssh_hardening.pdf http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050815135941513 none of these really seems to nail the whole issue down, but it was the best I could find. SR