[Mageia-dev] absurd comment in default sshd configuration file

[Pascal Terjan]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Guillaume Rousse
<guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
> # WARNING: 'UsePAM no' is not supported in Mageia and may cause several
> # problems.
> I wonder about the usefulness of such comment...
>
> What does means 'not supported' ? The software has been patched, and its
> behaviour changed in such a way that it will not work as documented ? Or any
> bug report on bugzilla will automatically result in a question 'did you
> change UsePAM directive in sshd' before even attempting to identify end user
> problem ?
>
> And as changing ANY configuration directive in ANY software may result in
> problems, what's the point of a specific warning here ?
>
> So, what's the added value of this comment over default configuration ?

I believe the tools used to set some options (like PermitRootLogin)
which are ignored when UsePAM is true