sshd without-password vs prohibit-password
Posted in Operating Systems, Linux, Fedora, Debian, Red Hat, Services, SSH, CentOS on Friday, February 16, 2018 by cam
Upgrading a server from Debian 8 to Debian 9 - I noticed in /etc/ssh/sshd_config that ‘PermitRootLogin’ had the argument ‘prohibit-password’. Having not seen that before I wondered what the difference was between that and ‘without-password’.
Turns out that mean and do the same thing - but ‘prohibit-password’ was introduced to be less ambigous. So there you have it!
Check out the release notes here for proof :-)