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Justin
Asked: 2011-09-02 14:33:05 +0800 CST

SSH Allow Password For One User, Rest Only Allow Public Keys [duplicate]

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Is it possible with ssh to allow passwords from a certain user, but deny using passwords for everybody else?

Basically I want to allow password auth for user justin but everybody else must use public keys.

PasswordAuthentication no

Seems to be global though, no way to specify by user.

ssh ssh-keys

1 Answers

  1. Necromancing, but adding the following to your sshd_config should do the trick:

    Match User <username>
PasswordAuthentication yes
Match all

    Note that match is effective "until either another Match line or the end of the file." (The indentation isn't significant.)

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