Re: Allow password auth for one user with sftp?

[Hubert Chan <uhoreg@debian.org>]

On 2007-01-15 10:08:51 -0500 Adrian von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch> 
wrote:

> On Monday 15 January 2007 10:26, Berend De Schouwer wrote:

> > You could set the passwords for a, b, c, and d to some invalid hash
> > in /etc/passwd, so no password will actually work, but public keys do
> > work.  Like ubuntu does with 'root' in the default install.
>
> Good idea, except that I need a valid password for access via imaps 
> :-(

I guess you could make ssh use something like libpam-pwdfile or 
libpam-dotfile instead of instead of pam_unix for authentication, so 
that it will use a file other than /etc/passwd, and you can keep the 
old passwords for imaps.

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