Do people use HostbasedAuthentication?

Martin Hecht hecht at hlrs.de
Tue Dec 20 20:00:04 AEDT 2016


On 12/19/2016 06:43 PM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Do people actually use HostbasedAuthentication?  It needs several
> steps to enable and generally seems quite arcane by now.  I wonder
> if this is something that could be trimmed away...
>
we are using it on the internal network of our clusters, where we have
control over all the hosts.
Once configured for the hosts it avoids the need for managing
authorized_keys for each user.


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