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On Friday 28 November 2008 12:47:58 G T Smith wrote:
Bob Williams wrote:
On Thursday 27 November 2008 15:03:29 David C. Rankin wrote:
James Knott wrote:
To turn off password checking, which of the following do I need to modify in sshd.config?
I am not sure this is a good idea. Just because you have moved the default port to a different value does *not* mean you should disable authentication. A more sophisticated scan is quite likely to identify that the port is open for ssh and taking security of it is not very safe (particularly if open to the outside world). All this does is protect against 'dumb' scripts causing server load issues, once the port has been identified as being used for ssh it will become open to attack again.
Sorry, lack of clarity on my part. I already have keys set up, and understood that this made password checking superfluous. If that is so, I was asking which settings I should change in sshd.config. I appreciate your caution - always better to be safe than sorry! -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.0, Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default, KDE 3.5.10 Intel Celeron 2.53GHz, 2GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 7600GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org