Disable ssh password authentication

Bug #317141 reported by Eric Hammond
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Ubuntu on EC2
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

The standard for ssh to EC2 instances is to use ssh key pairs.

Amazon EC2 (and other security experts) recommend disabling password authentication in EC2 instances.

This can be done in /etc/ssh/sshd_config by setting:

  PasswordAuthentication no

Revision history for this message
Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote :

I have added this functionality to vmbuilder and will target it for beta2.

Changed in ubuntu-on-ec2:
milestone: none → beta2
status: New → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote :

beta2 is out

Changed in ubuntu-on-ec2:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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