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Date:      Tue, 26 Mar 2002 18:45:37 -0600
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1017621938.989e94@mired.org>
To:        Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: S/Key Password?
Message-ID:  <15521.5681.560963.960936@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020326201700.GA71068@dub.net>
References:  <3CA0084E.1030606@atrustrivalie.org> <001d01c1d489$4375b480$da8ea392@zeus> <20020326201700.GA71068@dub.net>

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In <20020326201700.GA71068@dub.net>, Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net> typed:
> This has been a source of annoyance (for me) over the past few months.
> Of course it would have been avoided had I actually examined the diff of
> sshd_config in mergemaster so I'm not really complaining. 
> 
> To get rid of the s/key functionality uncomment this line in
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
> 
>     # Uncomment to disable s/key passwords 
>     ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
> 
> Do enough people actually use s/key to justify having it enabled by
> default?

If you don't like the idea of fooling with a file that's part of the
distribution, this can also be disabled by setting it in ~/.ssh/config
on the client side. Of course, if you don't know where you're going to
be coming from, that doesn't help much.

	<mike
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