Key-based SSH authentication

[G. Matthew Rice]

William O'Higgins Witteman <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> writes:
> Changing PasswordAuthentication to "no" doesn't work, because it has
> always been set to "no".

Are you certain?  from the sshd_config man page:

     PasswordAuthentication
             Specifies whether password authentication is allowed.  The
             default is ``yes''.

Maybe I missed something in your earlier e-mail and am answering a different
question. :)
        

> The advice to open up a second session to use as a bail-out was
> essential - I didn't realize that an SSH session will persist even when
> you restart the daemon.  Neat.

That's the same for most (all?) daemons of this sort.  Stopping the service
will kill the daemon listening on the service's port (ie. no more new
connections) but any children will continue running.

Regards,
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