topic Re: Disable SSH password authentication? in General Topics

Disable SSH password authentication?

ShaunD — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 21:03:15 GMT

After I have loaded public keys for administrators on my PA Devices, is there a way to disable SSH password based authentication?

Thanks!

Re: Disable SSH password authentication?

UhMayYeah — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 09:05:18 GMT

For a defined Administrators (Default admin excluded), you can check the option "Use only client certificate authentication (Web)" along with :Use Public Key Authentication (SSH)" this will virtually* disable the password based auth for ssh , but you would have to configure Cert-Based auth for WebUI logins :

virtually*= Password would still be prompted for admin if private key is not used during logins.

Re: Disable SSH password authentication?

ShaunD — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 12:52:35 GMT

I appreciate the response- however, I would still prefer to be able to disable password based auth entirely through SSH. I'll submit this as a feature request.

Thanks-