Question about setting up ssh

[Neil Watson]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 07:49:24PM -0400, Digimer wrote:
> On 10-06-11 07:20 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>> * set "PasswordAuthentication no" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on all machines
>
> This shouldn't be needed. So long as you generated the source  
> user at machine's key RSA keys without a pass-phrase and having the  
> '~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub' keys in your target user at machine's  
> '~/.ssh/authorized_keys' file, the password won't be asked.

Digimer might want to specifically disallow password attempts.  This is
good practice if the network is untrusted.

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Neil Watson
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