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Old 03-03-2003
disallowing user/pass authentication in favor of a pure key system?
i finally got my key-pair system working... sort of a makeshift eToken
system. however, i only want to allow this sytem for system access. i
don't want to allow for the standard user/pass authentication system.

right now i changed the following:

# To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!
PasswordAuthentication no

(i removed the comment and changed it to no).

however, i can still login with my user/pass.

any idea how i can prevent this?
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Old 03-03-2003
what you can do is strip out all valid logins from the /etc/passwd file on the target system so the only login names left are that of ftp, and things like that
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Old 03-04-2003
okay, i'm confused. how exactly is this going to help me do what i want to do?

won't this prevent any normal login from happening?

i simply want to kill the user/pass system and enforce keys. i have my private key on my usb-flash device. and i only want to allow access to my network if the private key off the USB device is used... and no other way.

it's a really ugly way of using eTokens but if it works... i can wow some clients... Smilie

one though occured to me... but i really don't want to do it this way.

i could make the userpass word a long string of garbage... but... no... this is still allowing for a user/pass method.
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