Hi, Have you considered using the tcp wrapper support that ssh has? By the way, is the Debian ssh package compiled with tcp wrapper support? Anyway, assuming it is, if you really need to have an empty passphrase I would strongly suggest that you only allow secure shell logins from trusted machine which you can setup in your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny file. Again, this assumes that the Debian package has tcp wrapper support compiled in to it or you compiled in tcp wrapper support yourself.
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