Re: a simple questions about sshd and PasswordAuthentication

2006-10-24 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 21:49, Juha Saarinen wrote: > On 10/25/06, Jeff MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there anything inherintaly dangerous or wrong about enabling > > PasswordAuthentication in sshd_config ? > > > > I understand how public keys are better and everything else. And I

Re: a simple questions about sshd and PasswordAuthentication

2006-10-24 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 21:54, Atom Powers wrote: > On 10/24/06, Jeff MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there anything inherintaly dangerous or wrong about enabling > > PasswordAuthentication in sshd_config ? > > > > I understand how public keys are better and everything else. And > >

Re: a simple questions about sshd and PasswordAuthentication

2006-10-24 Thread Atom Powers
On 10/24/06, Jeff MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there anything inherintaly dangerous or wrong about enabling PasswordAuthentication in sshd_config ? I understand how public keys are better and everything else. And I do use them. I'm just curious. There are many arguments for and agai

Re: a simple questions about sshd and PasswordAuthentication

2006-10-24 Thread Peter
--- Juha Saarinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/25/06, Jeff MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there anything inherintaly dangerous or wrong about enabling > > PasswordAuthentication in sshd_config ? > > > > I understand how public keys are better and everything else. And I > do > >

Re: a simple questions about sshd and PasswordAuthentication

2006-10-24 Thread Juha Saarinen
On 10/25/06, Jeff MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there anything inherintaly dangerous or wrong about enabling PasswordAuthentication in sshd_config ? I understand how public keys are better and everything else. And I do use them. I'm just curious. Probably not, if you have strong pass

a simple questions about sshd and PasswordAuthentication

2006-10-24 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Is there anything inherintaly dangerous or wrong about enabling PasswordAuthentication in sshd_config ? I understand how public keys are better and everything else. And I do use them. I'm just curious. Jeff. -- Unless otherwise indicated, anything I write is either garnered from experience or p