Jeff Abrahamson on Thu, 21 Nov 2002 22:00:05 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] ssh question 

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 06:11:35PM -0500, epike@isinet.com wrote:
> how do i disable ssh password authentication and force
> users to use public key authentication (default = if no
> public key, prompt for password).

    man ssh

which suggests looking at

    man ssh_config

which reveals, searching for the word "password":

     PasswordAuthentication
             Specifies whether to use password authentication.  The argument
             to this keyword must be ``yes'' or ``no''.  The default is
             ``yes''.

(I haven't tried this myself today (you want me to do all your work?),
but it concurs with my recall of how to do it.)

-- 
 Jeff

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