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Re: Per-user public key/password selection possible?

Subject: Re: Per-user public key/password selection possible?
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 08:19:37 -0500
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 08:00:24AM +0000, Bjorn Steensrud wrote:
On a HP-UX 11 system we have an account that was created by a script, with 
a locked account - i.e. a "*" in  /etc/password 
to prevent logging in to this account with password authentication.  Could 
it still be possible to log in with ssh using pubkey authentication? 

Yes.  Standard suggestions apply: make sure the user owns his own home
directory, and that there are NO world- or group-writable directories
along the path leading up to ~user/.ssh/authorized_keys.  Make sure you
spell authorized_keys in the US manner.  Make sure your public key is
in the correct format (OpenSSH vs. SSH.com).

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