limiting authentication mechanisms [was: Re: Restrict extranet connection to a group]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Mon Oct 1 07:11:32 EST 2012


On 09/29/2012 05:25 PM, Peter Stuge wrote:
> I don't allow password or challenge+response (kbdint).

fwiw, ChallengeResponseAuthentication is actually a different setting
from KbdInteractiveAuthentication.

I usually do:

 PasswordAuthentication no
 KbdInteractiveAuthentication no
 ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

To limit authentication to saner mechanisms like pubkey or GSSAPI (when
patched in).

	--dkg

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