On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Gerald C. Simmons wrote:
> That worked!!  You know, I set Password Authentication to no, because the
> comment line in the file smbd.conf said that this would disable "tunneled clear
> text" passwords. I inferred that it would use encrypted passwords instead, not
> no passwords.
>
> Do you know what they meant?

No, I don't... I do know that with PasswordAuthentication set to yes,
the password is sent encrypted. The sshd manpage says, "Specifies
whether password authentication is allowed.  The default is ``yes''."

However, if you do want to turn off password authentication, you can use
public key authentication instead... run "ssh-keygen -t rsa" on the
PowerBook, then add the contents of the ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub file to your
~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 file on the NetBSD side (create the file if it
doesn't exist).
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