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bug#26695: openssh password-authentication? should be #f by default


From: Maxim Cournoyer
Subject: bug#26695: openssh password-authentication? should be #f by default
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 09:09:51 -0700
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On April 28, 2017 7:37:13 AM PDT, Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> 
wrote:
>Our default permits password authentication for the openssh service
>(and
>the others it seems) by default in Guix.  This is somewhat dangerous
>because this is a much easier to break in this way, and some users
>might
>not assume the default is reasonably safe.  If users really want
>password-authentication, they should turn it on explicitly.

+1. Although it means the keys will have to be copied by another mean than the 
"ssh-copy-id" script. Maybe the configuration could accept the public key? :) I 
haven't checked if this is already possible.






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