different passwords for local and remote login?

Geert Hendrickx geert.hendrickx at ua.ac.be
Wed Dec 8 03:50:41 PST 2004


Paul Hamilton wrote:
> Hi Geert,
> 
> Couldn't you just login remotely as someone different, and then (if needed),
> su to the correct user?
> 
> That's what I do.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul Hamilton

Good idea -- then I would only allow a user called "remote" in, via
AllowUsers or AllowGroups in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.

But this makes it hard to have applications login automatically using
keys ...

GH


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list