How to disabled password authentication for specific users in SSHD
- by Nick
I have read several posts regarding restricting ALL users to Key authentication ONLY, however I want to force only a single user (svn) onto Key auth only, the rest can be key or password.
I read How to disable password authentication for every users except several, however it seems the "match user" part of sshd_config is part of openssh-5.1. I am running CentOS 5.6 and only have OpenSSH 4.3. I have the following repos available at the moment.
$ yum repolist
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
repo id repo name status
base CentOS-5 - Base enabled: 3,535
epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - x86_64 enabled: 6,510
extras CentOS-5 - Extras enabled: 299
ius IUS Community Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - x86_64 enabled: 218
rpmforge RHEL 5 - RPMforge.net - dag enabled: 10,636
updates CentOS-5 - Updates enabled: 720
repolist: 21,918
I mainly use epel, rpmforge is used to the latest version (1.6) of subversion.
Is there any way to achieve this with my current setup? I don't want to restrict the server to keys only because if I lose my key I lose my server ;-)