[scponly] Public-key authentication

Ralf Durkee rd at rd1.net
Thu Feb 19 14:51:07 EST 2004


At 07:43 PM 2/19/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>How do you setup public-key authentication for a scponly (jailed Chroot 
>account).
>
>Note i have public-key working fine with a normal shell account. And i 
>have tried puting a authorized_keys file in a root owed .ssh directory 
>scponly account
>
>FreeBSD 4.9
>OpenSSH 3.5
>scponly 3.8

Good Question! I'd recommend you specify a different location for the 
authorized keys file using the sshd_config directive "AuthorizedKeysFile". 
Check sshd_config for details.

-- Ralf Durkee, GSEC, GCIH
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