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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Fedora
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Enable PAM
Medium Severity
UsePAM Enables the Pluggable Authentication Module interface. If set to “yes” this will enable PAM authentication using ChallengeResponseAuthentication and PasswordAuthentication in addition to PAM account and session module processing for all authentication types. To enable PAM authentication, add or correct the following line in
/etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/00-complianceascode-hardening.conf
:
UsePAM yes