From: Aaron Nichols (adnicholsgmail.com)
Date: Tue Nov 02 2004 - 14:56:27 CST

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> His use of that option is perfectly valid HOWEVER - that option does
> require that ssh be used with a command defined, eg. ssh <hostname>
> <command> - simply using ssh <hostname> will not work. If you want to
> be able to ssh <hostname> but want to disable password authentication
> (while allowing public keys) you should use the "without-password"
> option I believe.

After testing this on the two systems I have available at the moment
(OpenBSD 3.5 Release running 3.8.1 & FreeBSD running openssh-portable
3.9p1) I have the same issue with forced-commands-only. However, the
'without-password' option seems to function as specified.

Aaron

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