В Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:24:39 +0100
"Carlos E. R."
On 2014-12-11 08:34, John M Andersen wrote:
On 12/10/2014 8:53 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
So, are there, perhaps, different types of password login via ssh, and this config applies to one of them, perhaps an older method that mc's sftp uses?
You are definitely right about this Carlos.
Setting that to NO does not prevent login with a password. Setting it to NO only seems to block some things like sftp.
I think it may be what arvidjaar calls "keyboard-interactive". mc does not support it (in sftp at least).
mc-sftp needs "tunneled clear text passwords", in the ssh config parlance. Maybe the other one is ChallengeResponseAuthentication or keyboard-interactive.
Yes. PasswordAuthentication enables one of ssh authentication protocols (password). Another protocol is ChallengeResponse (keyboard-interactive). This can be configured to use virtually any authentication tokens; in combination with UsePAM and PAM default configuration it simply requests user password.
I don't have this clear.