On Tuesday 12 February 2002 17:45, Vinu Chandran wrote: > Hi > > I want to set up my server machine (RH 7.2) to allow remote > connections from clients only using pass phrase, and not normal > password. For that I created the public key in my client machine using > ssh-kegen. I took ~/.ssh/identity.pub to the server and put it as > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Then I tired to connect my server like > > # ssh -1 servername > > It asked for pass phrase and after entering the same I got logged in to > the machine. The same way > > # ssh servername > > also works by asking my system password at the server. I want to disable > the normal password based authentication and use only "pass phrase" > authentication. How can I do that ? please advise...
ensure that PasswordAuthentication option in sshd_config is set to "no" and from the client use the remote username like ssh -l "remote user" servername. otherwise the user will be taken as the local user. vishwanath -- T. K. Vishwanath Penguin India Linux Solutions (P) Ltd. #288 C.K. Achkat BSK 3rd stage 3rd phase Bangalore-560 085 mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
