Make Sure Password Authentication is Off
Sometimes it is useful to find out what hosts on your network allow Password authentication so that you can turn it off. Here is a simple script to facilitate that. Create a file called “iplist” filled with each IP that you wish to test and then run the script below. Optionally, you can set ‘password’ to something you expect to work and it will tell you if it authenticated, or if it only asked for a password but failed to authenticate:
#!/bin/bash
password=mypassword
while read HOST; do
echo "echo '$password'; echo >&2 '$HOST asked for password'; rm \$0" > /dev/shm/askpass
chmod 755 askpass
export SSH_ASKPASS="/dev/shm/askpass"
export DISPLAY=x
setsid ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password,keyboard-interactive -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o ConnectTimeout=3 -o GSSAPIAuthentication=no $HOST "echo $HOST logged in" < /dev/null
done < iplist
-Eric