Re: Accepting only known clients to connect using ssh

From: Bengt Bäverman (bengtREMOVE@baverman.se)
Date: 08/01/02 

From: "Bengt Bäverman" <bengtREMOVE@baverman.se>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:50:50 +0200

Thank you,

This worked for me.

/BengtB

"Bryan Packer" <bryanp@visi.com> wrote in message
news:3D475C77.F6589EAA@visi.com...
>
>
> "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
>
> --
>
> 2 rules for success -
> 1) Never tell all that you know

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