SSH struggle continued - different battlefield

Hi,

Still running SSH on a Debian Sarge (kernel 2.6.8-2-386).
Port 22 is listening, firewall is open for port 22 on my LAN.

I want to use public key authentication exclusively.
Public key authentication works fine, but I don't manage to disable
"classis" password authentication: the server accepts both.

Below my sshd_config file.
Any clues ?
Thanks.


# Package generated configuration file
# See the sshd(8) manpage for details
# What ports, IPs and protocols we listen for
Port 22
# Use these options to restrict which interfaces/protocols sshd will bind to
#ListenAddress ::
#ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
Protocol 2
# HostKeys for protocol version 2
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
#Privilege Separation is turned on for security
UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
# Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key
KeyRegenerationInterval 3600
ServerKeyBits 768
# Logging
SyslogFacility AUTH
LogLevel INFO
# Authentication:
LoginGraceTime 600
PermitRootLogin no
StrictModes yes
RSAAuthentication no
PubkeyAuthentication yes
AuthorizedKeysFile %h/.ssh/authorized_keys
# Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files
IgnoreRhosts yes
# For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh_known_hosts
RhostsRSAAuthentication no
# similar for protocol version 2
HostbasedAuthentication no
# Uncomment if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for
RhostsRSAAuthentication
#IgnoreUserKnownHosts yes
# To enable empty passwords, change to yes (NOT RECOMMENDED)
PermitEmptyPasswords no
# Change to no to disable s/key passwords
#ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes
# Change to yes to enable tunnelled clear text passwords
PasswordAuthentication no
# To change Kerberos options
#KerberosAuthentication no
#KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes
#AFSTokenPassing no
#KerberosTicketCleanup no
# Kerberos TGT Passing does only work with the AFS kaserver
#KerberosTgtPassing yes
X11Forwarding no
X11DisplayOffset 10
PrintMotd no
PrintLastLog yes
KeepAlive yes
#UseLogin no
#MaxStartups 10:30:60
#Banner /etc/issue.net
Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/sftp-server
UsePAM yes

Dominique Gibon wrote:
> ...
> RSAAuthentication no

RSAAuthentication yes

> RhostsRSAAuthentication no
> ...
> RhostsRSAAuthentication

Um...? Probably not the source of this problem, but dump the line where
you don't bother to specify a value.

> #ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes

ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

Allen Kistler wrote:

>
> RSAAuthentication yes
>
>
>> #ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes
>
> ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

Spotless, works like a charm.
Many thanks.