[nflug] SSH Permission Denied on local machine

Franklin Kumro Jr fkumro at gmail.com
Mon Apr 28 08:23:18 EDT 2008


Andrew,

I planned on switching ports and I'll look into the passphrase  
protected keys, normally I don't have them passphrased which I know  
isn't the best :-P Denyhosts is also running so that adds a little bit  
of security from dictionary attacks.

Thanks!

Frank
On Apr 28, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Andrew Long wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Franklin Kumro Jr  
> <fkumro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The issue was...
>
> Less ambiguous is...
>
> PasswordAuthentication yes
>
> This is the default, same as commenting out the line.
> Missed that, it was plain as day in your first post...
>
> FYI
> If you switch to passphrase protected keys and use a non-standard port
> you'll be much more secure.
>
> Andrew
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