Re: a simple questions about sshd and PasswordAuthentication

2006-10-24 Thread Juha Saarinen
On 10/25/06, Jeff MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: a simple questions about sshd and PasswordAuthentication

2006-10-24 Thread Peter
--- Juha Saarinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/25/06, Jeff MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: a simple questions about sshd and PasswordAuthentication

2006-10-24 Thread Atom Powers
On 10/24/06, Jeff MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. There are many arguments for and

Re: a simple questions about sshd and PasswordAuthentication

2006-10-24 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 21:54, Atom Powers wrote: On 10/24/06, Jeff MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: a simple questions about sshd and PasswordAuthentication

2006-10-24 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 21:49, Juha Saarinen wrote: On 10/25/06, Jeff MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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