Re: disable password authentication with openssh

From: Roberto C. Sanchez (roberto_at_familiasanchez.net)
Date: 09/29/05

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To: Matthew Lenz <matthew@nocturnal.org>

    On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:44:58PM -0500, Matthew Lenz wrote:
    > I want my users to only be able to ssh into the system using public key
    > authentication. I can't seem to locate which option i need to toggle to
    > only allow pubkey auth.
    >
    In /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

    RSAAuthentication yes
    PubkeyAuthentication yes
    PasswordAuthentication no

    Of course, remember to restart ssh.

    -Roberto 

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