SSH: passwords or keys? [LWN.net]

SSH: passwords or keys?

Posted Jan 14, 2010 19:19 UTC (Thu) by kamil (subscriber, #3802)
Parent article: SSH: passwords or keys?

At my previous job, the systems group set up SSH on the servers such that it would not accept the keys -- you had to use the passwords. As a user I found it rather annoying, but the motivation was not completely without merit -- they wanted to ensure that people could not use password-less keys, and the only way to do that was to ban the use of keys altogether.

Need I mention that the systems group there was a real BOFH club? :-)

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SSH: passwords or keys?

Posted Jan 14, 2010 20:07 UTC (Thu) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331) [Link]

ensure that people could not use password-less keys, and the only way to do that was to ban the use of keys altogether.

There's still expect.

SSH: passwords or keys?

Posted Jan 15, 2010 15:57 UTC (Fri) by dtlin (✭ supporter ✭, #36537) [Link]

Sshpass is a tool for non-interactivly performing password authentication with SSH's so called "interactive keyboard password authentication".

... yeah.