Re: Accepting only known clients to connect using ssh

From: Bryan Packer (bryanp@visi.com)
Date: 07/31/02 

From: Bryan Packer <bryanp@visi.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:41:43 -0500

"Bengt Bäverman" wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have looked in several places but cannot find a way of only accepting
> clients, connecting using ssh, whos public keys I know of already. If a
> client is not already known it should be rejected. I want this to be
> globally defined for the whole server, and not user specific. How di I
> configure sshd correctly to get this functionality?

Set the option in sshd_config for PasswordAuthentication to "no" and
RSAAuthentication to "yes". They'll need a public key in their home
folder to be able to authenticate. Be mindful of the file permissions in
the home folder, SSH is a little picky about that if I recall.

bryan 

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