Configure Password Authentication
Password authentication is supported by default; no configuration is required on either the server or the client to use this authentication method.
Follow these procedures if you want to modify the default server or client configuration.
To configure password authentication on the client
- Open the client configuration file (/etc/ssh2/ssh2_config) in a text editor.
- Edit the AllowedAuthentications keyword. For example:
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Require password authentication
Edit the allowed list to include only password authentication:
AllowedAuthentications=password
Deny both keyboard interactive and password authentication
Remove these methods from the allowed list. For example:
AllowedAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,publickey
To configure password authentication on the server
- Open the server configuration file (/etc/ssh2/sshd2_config) in a text editor.
- Edit either AllowedAuthentications or RequiredAuthentications.
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Require password authentication
Use the following command:RequiredAuthentications=password
Deny both password and keyboard interactive authentication
Remove these methods from the allowed list. For example:
AllowedAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,publickey
- (Optional) Use PasswordGuesses to change the maximum number of attempts a user is allowed for password authentication. (The default is 3.) For example:
PasswordGuesses=5
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