[NBLUG/talk] Root and SSH questions..

Steve Johnson srj at adnd.com
Wed Sep 17 18:19:01 PDT 2003


E Frank Ball wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:44:55PM -0700, Steve Johnson wrote:

> I'd go ahead and allow root login via ssh, but turn off passwords:
> 
> # To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!
> PasswordAuthentication no
> 
> And only allow ssh key pairs for logging in.
> 

Can you disable passwords on a per user basis?  I have a few users that 
use my box as a shell server (People I trust) but last time I tried to 
make it ssh keys only they couldnt figure out how to get in haha.

-Steve





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