Re: SSH with pre-shared key *and* password authentication. How does *that* work?

["Ray Lewis" <rlewis@anpisolutions.com>]

SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition if you like
reading a book. 
Lots of free stuff online if you don't mind reading from a web page.
Just google ssh or openSSH. Glad to hear that Zach made you paranoid
too. ;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: silug-discuss-owner@silug.org
[mailto:silug-discuss-owner@silug.org] On Behalf Of Kyle Pointer
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 3:07 PM
To: silug-discuss@silug.org
Subject: SSH with pre-shared key *and* password authentication. How does
*that* work?

Ok, so I've been talking to Zach a lot lately, and he's got me all  
paranoid about running ssh.

I know how to setup the really basic stuff... like... enabling the  
server, but past that, I don't really know how to do anything useful.  
I'd really like to read up on the different authentication methods and  
all of that, but there's so much going on, I don't really know where  
to start.

My main goal is to setup my ssh server so that it requires a client to  
have a username, a password, and a pre-shared key... just to add  
another layer of security. While I'm sure no one really cares enough  
to spend the time brute-forcing my password, I do think it would be  
fairly useful knowledge to have.

Could anyone point me to any particularly good documentation, or  
recommend a book on the subject?
Also, I am perfectly aware that there is a lot of good information in  
the man pages for openssh, but what I'm really looking for is a primer  
on the whole subject, because I don't even understand half of the  
terms that get thrown around.

-- kyle

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