force SSH Key based login

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 14:38 -0500, A. Jorge Garcia wrote:
> > is it possible to disable password-based login for a specific user
> > account?
> > I need to let them use SSH-Key based login only, yet allow one other
> > user to stick with the password-based authentication.
> Try something like
> 
> Match User <username>
>         PasswordAuthentication no
> 
> in sshd_config.

Or zot their password so they *can't* use it, after setting up the
publickey login.

Regards, K.
 
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