From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 26 16:45:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96C1D37B416 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:45:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 33659 invoked by uid 100); 27 Mar 2002 00:45:38 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15521.5681.560963.960936@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 18:45:37 -0600 To: Bill Swingle Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: S/Key Password? In-Reply-To: <20020326201700.GA71068@dub.net> References: <3CA0084E.1030606@atrustrivalie.org> <001d01c1d489$4375b480$da8ea392@zeus> <20020326201700.GA71068@dub.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.49 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <20020326201700.GA71068@dub.net>, Bill Swingle typed: > This has been a source of annoyance (for me) over the past few months. > Of course it would have been avoided had I actually examined the diff of > sshd_config in mergemaster so I'm not really complaining. > > To get rid of the s/key functionality uncomment this line in > /etc/ssh/sshd_config: > > # Uncomment to disable s/key passwords > ChallengeResponseAuthentication no > > Do enough people actually use s/key to justify having it enabled by > default? If you don't like the idea of fooling with a file that's part of the distribution, this can also be disabled by setting it in ~/.ssh/config on the client side. Of course, if you don't know where you're going to be coming from, that doesn't help much. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message