Nathan Dragun wrote: > PasswordAuthentication is set to no by default, as enabling it causes > cleartext password authentication (obviously defeating the point of > encrypting it in the first place). No, it doesn't. It defaults to Off because Debian wants SSH to use PAM for system account authentication, and not do it itself.
> And yes UsePAM = yes was set, for clarification. So I'd assume that > meant that PAM authentication was final? Nope, it's dependent on SSH configuration. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]