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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Ralf Steinhaeusser Subject: Re: How to force passfile-login via SSL? Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:18:24 +0100 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <6.0.0.22.2.20031110003400.02c5c288@mail.spoonworx.com> <3FAED6A6.BA98DEF2@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 16:07:02 -0800, Brian Dessent 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". That's it, now everything works perfectly! Thanks a lot. Btw: Is there a way to "restart" Cygwin, so changes in such a file take effect without restarting Windows? Ralf -- 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/