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Date:      Mon, 27 May 2002 21:51:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      chuck sumner <chuck@ns1.2inches.com>
To:        Lukas Karlsson <karlsson@panix.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ssh s/key authentication?
Message-ID:  <20020527214855.J23853-100000@ns1.2inches.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020527100513.X49709-100000@starship.alienwebshop.com>

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theres a line in /etc/ssh/sshd_config

# Uncomment to disable s/key passwords
#ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

you will need to restart sshd after you uncomment the line


On Mon, 27 May 2002, Lukas Karlsson wrote:

> I just installed a fresh 4.5 system from CD-ROM yesterday.  Once it was
> installed, I tried to ssh into it.  If I tried to ssh from the localhost,
> it worked properly (prompted me for a password).  When I tried to ssh from
> another machine, I was prompted for an s/key.  Is that the default
> behavior?  The way I got it to work was to uncomment the line that turns
> off s/key authentication in the sshd_config.  Is that the proper way to
> fix this?  I also messed with the pam.conf but that didn't really seem to
> have an effect.  I have no experience with pam.
>
> Basically, I'm just looking for guidance here.  I'm new to this stuff.  Is
> that what most people to do get around that s/key issue?  Or are lots of
> people actually using s/key today?
>
> /l
>
>
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> Lukas Karlsson                                             karlsson@panix.com
> Cambridge, MA	                                           http://lukwam.com/
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