All, This is not a big deal -- just curious. We have a commercial Linux AD integration product. In it, the incoming user's authorization to log in is validated during the PAM "authentication" phase. So if it's a legal AD user and good password, but that user is not authorized in -- you're returned to the "login name: / password:" prompt. In sssd, it appears that validating if you're a legally-authorized user or in a legally-authorized group occurs in the PAM "account" phase. It's done by the "simple" access_provider. Consider again a legal AD user and good password, but again -- that user is not authorized in. Now that user name is accepted, that password is accepted, but then the server closes your putty session. You're not returned to a "login name: / password:" prompt. Like I say -- not a big deal. Unauthorized users are intercepted and disallowed, just in different ways. Just curious if there's a way to make sssd fail in the former manner, instead of the latter.