On Saturday 14 October 2006 19:45, Mick wrote: > I have a vhost account with an ISP and he's given me ssh access - which is > nice. However, his /etc/sshd_config is set to allow passwd authentication > rather than public key and there's no ~/.ssh/authorised_keys dir/file in my > home. How does that matter? You should be able to create that yourself.
> Is there a way to set up per user sshd login preferences so that some users > can login using say passwd while others use keys only, or is there just one > setting for the whole server through the /etc/sshd_config? I am not sure > how things work in a vhost setup so I though of checking first before I > start asking them silly questions. ;-) ssh doesn't care about vhost And yes you can, the default sshd config comes with an example: # Example of overriding settings on a per-user basis #Match User anoncvs # X11Forwarding no # AllowTcpForwarding no # ForceCommand cvs server -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
