Re: OT: disabling login
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 00:43:53 +0100 Hans Ekbrand <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 05:23:09PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 17:16:38 -0600 Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu> wrote:
> > > Note that they can still login via ssh + key auth, so remove
> > > their ~/.ssh/authorized_keys[2] if you have that (rename
> > > instead of removing, if you want to re-enable it later).
> >
> > How, if the password has been mangled?
> >
>
> Authentication with public/private keys does not involve any password on the server side, so why would the server-side password matter?
Wel.... I assumed (yes, laugh at me, call me an MSCE) that the
key pairs _and_ PAM was used during ssh login.
What it sounds like you are saying is that there are (can be)
different passwords for logging in from ssh vs. telnet/console/etc.
That sounds bizarre.
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