--- Juha Saarinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/25/06, Jeff MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there anything inherintaly dangerous or wrong about enabling > > PasswordAuthentication in sshd_config ? > > > > I understand how public keys are better and everything else. And I > do > > use them. I'm just curious. > > Probably not, if you have strong passwords and sensible management > policies. That said, PasswordAuthentication attracts the brute-force > crackers like flies to rotting meat, so...
Password authentication in combination with running sshd on a non-standard port is what I use. No problem there. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"