[Gllug] Selective SSH logins

Peter Corlett abuse at cabal.org.uk
Tue Aug 26 12:29:42 UTC 2008


On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 01:25:01PM +0100, - Tethys wrote:
[...]
> Sigh. I do wish people would stop perpetuating the myth that key
> authenticated logins are more secure than password authenticated ones. If
> anything, the opposite is true.

It *does* however stop people habitually typing in their password at any
random login prompt, and also stops a password - which is inevitably shared
with another system - from being captured by a compromised sshd.

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