[Labs-l] password auth

Ryan Lane rlane at wikimedia.org
Fri Feb 1 16:39:28 UTC 2013


It hasn't been storage that's been the problem. It's been LDAP issues.
Password auth isn't going to help in this situation.

Additionally, password auth is incredibly insecure. We just moved away from
sudo with password, why introduce something even less secure?


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's not possible to login to ssh using password - why?
>
> Labs are apparently having more than enough of troubles with storage thus
> logging in using ssh keys sometimes doesn't work, as the storage containing
> them doesn't work.
>
> Can we have password auth as alternative in this case?
>
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