On 6/8/17 9:38 AM, Brent Kimberley wrote:
>
> Does sshd need to be recompiled - in order to completely disable
> password authentication?
>
>  
>
> I would like to reduce the number of false positives in /var/log/secure
>
> ^.*sshd.*: Invalid user .* from .*$
>
> ^.*sshd.*: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for .* failed -
> POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT!$
>
> ^.* sshd.*: input_userauth_request: invalid user .*$
>

In theory, should be able to disable ChallengeResponseAuthentication and
PasswordAuthentication, then call it a day. Never actually tried, though.
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