full-disclosure - SSHD - PasswordAuthentication no/yes

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Message-ID: <4424C2D7.1040600@list.za.net>
Date: Tue Mar 28 13:50:47 2006
From: full-disclosure at list.za.net (Q Beukes)
Subject: SSHD - PasswordAuthentication no/yes

afaik only brute forcing can be a problem.
except of course if there is physically problems with the Password auth
code,
that too can cause a problem...

but other than that i dont think there should be.

winsoc wrote:
> Hello List,
>  
> not sure if this is a bit too off-topic. But I wanted to ask if there
> are any Security problems when PasswordAuthentication gets changed
> from no to yes on OpenSSH4.1
>  
> Regards.
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