Re: passphrase vs password (again)

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003, Jun Sun wrote:

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> I asked a similar question last week. Here is another try.

Jun

Find what is different across your machines. That will explain your inconsistency: unsafe permissions, not having updated authorized_keys on each server, and sshd_config differences can affect public key authentication.

For example, when OpenSSH detects unsafe permissions, public key authentication will be disabled and you will fall back to password auth.

To require public key authentication, set:

    PasswordAuthentication no

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on each of your ssh servers.

With that set, if your permissions are unsafe or if you forgot to add your public key to the remote authorized_keys file, you will not be able use ssh to log on.

HTH,
Anthony Received on Mon Mar 24 14:51:32 2003