Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:52:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> To: Juha Saarinen <juhasaarinen@gmail.com>, Jeff MacDonald <bignose@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: a simple questions about sshd and PasswordAuthentication Message-ID: <20061025025212.65859.qmail@web60125.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <b34be8420610241949j3b7565d6r4742b30422a39369@mail.gmail.com>
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--- Juha Saarinen <juhasaarinen@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/25/06, Jeff MacDonald <bignose@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there anything inherintaly dangerous or wrong about enabling > > PasswordAuthentication in sshd_config ? > > > > I understand how public keys are better and everything else. And I > do > > use them. I'm just curious. > > Probably not, if you have strong passwords and sensible management > policies. That said, PasswordAuthentication attracts the brute-force > crackers like flies to rotting meat, so... Password authentication in combination with running sshd on a non-standard port is what I use. No problem there. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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