Re: sshd: PAM pam_set_item: NULL pam handle passed

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz () csh rit edu>]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 06:30:46PM -0500, Chris Faulhaber wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:29:32PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Mar  7 21:50:22 mizar sshd[15396]: PAM pam_set_item: NULL pam handle passed
>
> This can happen if someone ssh's to a machine then ^C's out of ssh
> when asked for the password.  I see this on FreeBSD 4.x (whose PAM
> implementation is based on LinuxPAM):
>
> Mar  8 18:27:08 merlin sshd[34674]: pam_set_item: NULL pam handle passed

Interesting...I can't reproduce this using that exact method, though.  If I
interrupt (or send a SIGTERM to) the ssh client while it is waiting for a
password, I just get:

Mar  8 19:02:50 mizar sshd[7895]: Connection closed by 127.0.0.1

It could be something similar (or related to RSA authentication).

-- 
 - mdz

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