On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 10:23:28AM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote: > > > What's wrong with PasswordAuthentication in a nutshell is, in order to > > authenticate yourself, both you and the destination host know your > > password. > > But, even if I have this set to "no", and I do an interactive login, > then both me and the remote box need to know my password. > > public/private keys avoid the above issue.
True enough--although I did not realize before this thread that setting PasswordAuthentication no still allows password authentication. Anyway, in my quote above, s/PasswordAuthentication/password authentication/, and it should be correct. > But I dont' see how setting PasswordAuthentication yes accomplishes the > above. > > Obviously I'm missing something. I'm going to go reread the thread -- Micah J. Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
