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Date:      Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:50:30 +0100
From:      Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
To:        Paul Hamilton <paulh@bdug.org.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: different passwords for local and remote login?
Message-ID:  <41B6EA86.8030809@ua.ac.be>
In-Reply-To: <00d701c4dd19$f85bc060$b700a8c0@w2k2>
References:  <00d701c4dd19$f85bc060$b700a8c0@w2k2>

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Paul Hamilton wrote:
> Hi Geert,
> 
> Couldn't you just login remotely as someone different, and then (if needed),
> su to the correct user?
> 
> That's what I do.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul Hamilton

Good idea -- then I would only allow a user called "remote" in, via
AllowUsers or AllowGroups in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.

But this makes it hard to have applications login automatically using
keys ...

GH



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