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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#26695: openssh password-authentication? should be #f by default
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 09:09:51 -0700
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On April 28, 2017 7:37:13 AM PDT, Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycl=
oud=2Eorg> wrote:
>Our default permits password authentication for the openssh service
>(and
>the others it seems) by default in Guix=2E  This is somewhat dangerous
>because this is a much easier to break in this way, and some users
>might
>not assume the default is reasonably safe=2E  If users really want
>password-authentication, they should turn it on explicitly=2E

+1=2E Although it means the keys will have to be copied by another mean th=
an the "ssh-copy-id" script=2E Maybe the configuration could accept the pub=
lic key? :) I haven't checked if this is already possible=2E