Re: Does a known security issue allow ssh login via system accounts?

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On Mon, 7 Mar 2022, Whit Blauvelt wrote:

> On Tue, 03/01/22, 2022 at 09:45:04AM +1100, Damien Miller wrote:
> 
> > It sounds like you have already verified that your PAM configuration was
> > not tampered with, so that removes one possibility. Reviewing the Ubuntu
> > PAM configurations and the patches they apply to sshd seem to be prudent
> > next steps.
> 
> Found the culprit: me. I was stupid enough to install and configure for
> libpam-google-auth, given a company mandate to 2FA all connections with
> admin access, where it wasn't in scope to add 2FA to all client accounts. If
> there's existing documentation anywhere on how dangerous this is, it's not
> in libpam-google-auth's own docs, nor in the recipes scattered across the
> net.

(off-list)

If you're able to share details of what went wrong, then please let me
know and I'll make sure they get back to the developers of this module.

-d
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