Thanks, On Saturday 14 October 2006 19:27, Harm Geerts wrote: > 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. Hmm, I can't! This is a FreeBSD server and it's rather locked down with respect to normal user access rights. > 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 Cool! I can't find this in my sshd_config file for some reason. So, all I need to ask them to do is uncomment #Match User and add my user name and options? Like so: ================================= Match User mick PubkeyAuthentication yes AuthorizedKeysFile ~/.ssh/authorized_keys PasswordAuthentication no ================================= Is that correct? -- Regards, Mick