[clug] secure remote access method
Michael Cohen
scudette at gmail.com
Fri Jun 19 01:07:07 GMT 2009
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Adam Thomas<adam.lloyd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/6/19 Hugh Fisher <hugh.fisher at anu.edu.au>:
> ...or making sure your shell account passwords are secure.
as a matter of course, you should never allow password access anyway:
PasswordAuthentication no
This is a must on any SSH server (I think its the default now?).
Passwords are generally only useful for console access.
Michael.
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