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Solved: sshd still allowing password auth despite updating config file

July 05, 2024

I'll keep this short and sweet: On recent editions of debian linux distributions, you may have noticed that setting PasswordAuthentication no doesn't seem to have any effect when you set it.

That's because high up in the sshd_config file, there's a statement to include additional configs:

Include . . .

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