HPN-SSH 18.5.1 Now Available

[rapier1]

We apologize for the quick release schedule but yesterday we discovered that in some circumstances PAM authentication with HPN-SSH would fail. In the event that someone compiled HPN-SSH with PAM enabled and had either never installed an OpenSSH server, or, had removed it and deleted the sshd pam file pam authentication would fail. This is due to a previous unnoticed change in OpenSSH where pam module became statically defined as "sshd" instead of being left as null. This forced a changed in how pam processed pam calls leading to potential failures.

This change was introduced in OpenSSH 9.8 in servconf.c

+#if !defined(SSHD_PAM_SERVICE)
+# define SSHD_PAM_SERVICE              "sshd"
+#endif

Our fix changes the definition from "sshd" to "hpnsshd". Binary packages have also been reviewed and updated to ensure that the hpnsshd pam module is properly installed.

[rapier1]

Note: This fix does not apply to the people using the Dynamic Window branch.