Disabling ssh password authentication does not work on my debian VPS

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                          I have a Debian 7 VPS setup. I just enabled SSH Key authentication and disabled password authentication but the disabling did not work.

When I attempt to SSH into my VPS, it prompts me for my SSH Key password which then works fine, BUT if I hit cancel, it will give me "Agent admitted faliure to sign" Error and then it prompts me for the current users account password, I enter it in and it logs me in with my account password, even though it's disabled... Does anyone have any idea why it allows me to login with password access? Thank you

I am connecting with a 4096 bit key.

Here is my sshd_config:

    Port 22
    # Use these options to restrict which interfaces/protocols sshd will bind to
    #ListenAddress ::
    #ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
    Protocol 2
    # HostKeys for protocol version 2
    HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
    HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
    HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
    #Privilege Separation is turned on for security
    UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
    
    # Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key
    KeyRegenerationInterval 3600
    ServerKeyBits 768
    # Logging
    SyslogFacility AUTH
    LogLevel INFO
    
    # Authentication:
    LoginGraceTime 120
    PermitRootLogin no
    StrictModes yes
    
    RSAAuthentication yes
    PubkeyAuthentication yes
    #AuthorizedKeysFile     %h/.ssh/authorized_keys
    
    # Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files
    IgnoreRhosts yes
    # For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh_known_hosts
    RhostsRSAAuthentication no
    # similar for protocol version 2
    HostbasedAuthentication no
    # Uncomment if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for RhostsRSAAuthentication
    #IgnoreUserKnownHosts yes
    
    # To enable empty passwords, change to yes (NOT RECOMMENDED)
    PermitEmptyPasswords no
    
    # Change to yes to enable challenge-response passwords (beware issues with
    # some PAM modules and threads)
    ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
    # Change to no to disable tunnelled clear text passwords
    #PasswordAuthentication no
    
    # Kerberos options
    #KerberosAuthentication no
    #KerberosGetAFSToken no
    #KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes
    #KerberosTicketCleanup yes
    
    # GSSAPI options
    #GSSAPIAuthentication no
    #GSSAPICleanupCredentials yes
    
    X11Forwarding yes
    X11DisplayOffset 10
    PrintMotd no
    PrintLastLog yes
    TCPKeepAlive yes
    #UseLogin no
    #GSSAPIAuthentication no
    #GSSAPICleanupCredentials yes
    
    X11Forwarding yes
    X11DisplayOffset 10
    PrintMotd no
    PrintLastLog yes
    TCPKeepAlive yes
    #UseLogin no
    #MaxStartups 10:30:60
    #Banner /etc/issue.net
    
    # Allow client to pass locale environment variables
    AcceptEnv LANG LC_*
    
    Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server
    
    # Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM authentication, account processing,
    # and session processing. If this is enabled, PAM authentication will
    # be allowed through the ChallengeResponseAuthentication and
    # PasswordAuthentication.  Depending on your PAM configuration,
    # PAM authentication via ChallengeResponseAuthentication may bypass
    # the setting of "PermitRootLogin without-password".
    # If you just want the PAM account and session checks to run without
    # PAM authentication, then enable this but set PasswordAuthentication
    # and ChallengeResponseAuthentication to 'no'.
    UsePAM yes


                        
Asked by DebianVPS (81 rep)
Jul 24, 2015, 12:48 AM
Last activity: Apr 28, 2025, 08:37 AM
Disabling ssh password authentication does not work on my debian VPS

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