How can I enable both password and public key authentication with OpenSSH
This is finally available as of OpenSSH 6.2 (released March 2013), using the AuthenticationMethods
configuration option.
For instance, you may add the following line to sshd_config
to require both public-key and password authentication:
AuthenticationMethods publickey,password
When logging in, ssh
and scp
will first perform public-key authentication, and then prompt for a password:
$ ssh [email protected]
Authenticated with partial success.
[email protected]'s password:
If you have a password on your private key file, you will of course first be prompted for that. Example using PuTTY:
Using username "user".
Authenticating with public key "rsa-key-20131221-user"
Passphrase for key "rsa-key-20131221-user":
Further authentication required
[email protected]'s password:
Not presently. But there are some patches floating around that are supposed to add this.
See https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=983