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Re: [netmod] I-D Action: draft-ietf-netmod-system-mgmt-11.txt

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Thu, 06 February 2014 13:45 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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Subject: Re: [netmod] I-D Action: draft-ietf-netmod-system-mgmt-11.txt
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On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 12:59:14PM +0100, Martin Bjorklund wrote:
> Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 07:05:30PM +0000, Yi Yang (yiya) wrote:
> > > I have a quick question on authentication method.
> > > 
> > > If the system supports SSH public key authentication only, but not local
> > > user password, how user-authentication-order should be set?
> >  
> > I think this is fair question to ask. Martin and Andy, are we missing
> > an identity for this case?
> 
> The local-users feature handles SSH keys as well, see 3.5.1.  As
> explained in 3.5.1, ssh public key authentication is requested by the
> client, so the authentication-order on the server doesn't really
> apply.
> 

Martin,

we are talking about the case where you disable password and
key-interactive authentication on the server side. This is actually
how I run the machines I am reponsible for (so I can sleep well
despite all the SSH login scanners out there).

/js

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