By efbergh
To disable Password Authentication after sshkey been added to home directory for user.
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Hi ebbergh,
It happens to me as well. So, I search sshd_config first, and then I go to the directory like this.
find / -name sshd_config
The directory is /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Use the command below to go to the directory.
cd /etc/ssh/
Once you go to the directory, you will see PasswordAuthentication No when you type the command below.
Pico sshd_config
Hope my comment can help you:)
Instead using nano when you can’t find that line try to grep that string to find out if it’s really there (Maybe you can’t see it ;) )
grep -n PasswordAuthentication /etc/ssh/sshd_config
It will give you also the line number in file where it is exactly. If there will be nothing, so just try to put that parameter to that file and restart sshd
Hello all,
- Log in to the console on the DigitalOcean website.
- Type sudo nano
/etc/ssh/sshd_config - Change PasswordAuthentication from “yes” to “no” and save the file
Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex
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