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On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 09:25:34AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Can anyone quickly explain the challenge response based methods?
>=20
> I use conventional password authentication or PubkeyAuthentication, so I
> wonder if this ChallengeResponseAuthentication is even needed.

e.g. S/Key and BSD_AUTH, so unless you use one of them (NetBSD doesn't
support BSD_AUTH afaik), you can safely disable it.  Challenge method
means that you need to answer something back to a given question, e.g.
type OTP in S/Key negotiation.

regards,

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