Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3FAED6A6.BA98DEF2@dessent.net> Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 16:07:02 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... X-Accept-Language: en,en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to force passfile-login via SSL? References: <6.0.0.22.2.20031110003400.02c5c288@mail.spoonworx.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host.linuxsv3.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - cygwin.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - dessent.net Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Ralf Steinh wrote: > Cygwin's SSH is the only incoming contact point of our server with the > Internet, the rest protected by a firewall. > Because our passwords are potentially weak (=short), and also to give > remote-access to only a limited set of users, I want to configure Cygwin to > allow connections with SSH only when they try to log in via a keyfile. (So > NOT via Username/Password of any NT-User). Have a look at "man sshd_config". I think the directive you want is "PasswordAuthentication no". Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/