[vox-tech] sshd_config and PasswordAuthentication

[Jay Strauss]

Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:43:52AM -0700, Henry House (hajhouse at houseag.com) wrote:
> 
>>P? 2005-07-07, skrev Jay Strauss:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I have a sveasoft box, and in order to ssh from the sveasoft to a target 
>>>box, the target box must have PasswordAuthentication yes in the 
>>>/etc/ssh/sshd_config file.
>>>
>>>I don't understand what that config option actually does.  The config 
>>>file has:
>>>
>>># To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!
>>>
>>>Does this mean you can send clear text passwords to login?
>>>Does this mean that when you build a tunnel, passwords are sent clear 
>>>text to the forwarded app?
> 
> 
> The curious can read the SSH protocols here:
> 
>     http://www.snailbook.com/protocols.html
> 
> ...which I've done.  I've been using SSH for years, but only understand
> some parts of it vaguely.
> 
>  
> 
....
> Peace.
> 
> 
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Thanks Karsten.  It's a long email it's going to take me a bit to figure 
out how this impacts me

Jay