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Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:47:33 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How to force passfile-login via SSL?
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:18:24PM +0100, Ralf Steinhaeusser wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 16:07:02 -0800, Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
> 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?

Cygwin is no service and has nothing to do with that file.  What you
want is restarting the sshd service.  `net start' and `net stop' or
`cygrunsrv' are your friend.

Corinna

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