From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GYoLU-0007G0-TS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 18:34:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9EIVOL2029529; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 18:31:24 GMT Received: from smtpq3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl (smtpq3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl [213.51.146.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9EIRxWw029716 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 18:27:59 GMT Received: from [213.51.146.190] (port=52130 helo=smtp1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl) by smtpq3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1GYoEp-0000Ve-7U for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:27:59 +0200 Received: from cc117081-a.gorre1.fr.home.nl ([217.120.145.219]:60072 helo=manuel.fawlty.mine.nu) by smtp1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1GYoEn-0003l9-R8 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:27:57 +0200 From: Harm Geerts To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ssh access in vhost account Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:27:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200610141845.40651.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200610141845.40651.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610142027.57423.harmgeerts@home.nl> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Neem contact op met support@home.nl voor meer informatie X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Archives-Salt: 0c972137-0882-4641-8a5f-9a33433826cc X-Archives-Hash: cd25523ba9ad1fb62683b62e65647275 On Saturday 14 October 2006 19:45, Mick wrote: > I have a vhost account with an ISP and he's given me ssh access - which is > nice. However, his /etc/sshd_config is set to allow passwd authentication > rather than public key and there's no ~/.ssh/authorised_keys dir/file in my > home. How does that matter? You should be able to create that yourself. > Is there a way to set up per user sshd login preferences so that some users > can login using say passwd while others use keys only, or is there just one > setting for the whole server through the /etc/sshd_config? I am not sure > how things work in a vhost setup so I though of checking first before I > start asking them silly questions. ;-) ssh doesn't care about vhost And yes you can, the default sshd config comes with an example: # Example of overriding settings on a per-user basis #Match User anoncvs # X11Forwarding no # AllowTcpForwarding no # ForceCommand cvs server -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list