0

I have key-pairs to ssh and scp into a server without entering my password. There are numerous tutorials on this, e.g.

https://alvinalexander.com/linux-unix/how-use-scp-without-password-backups-copy

I would like to now set up an environment whereby this key-pair doesn't exist for some debugging. I don't want to delete they key-pair I already have though, because that's a pain. It's requires much deleting/resetting of keys in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub, of which I have many.

Is it possible to ssh into the server in such a way such that the key-pair will be ignored? Is there a convenient way to enter in a "blank slate" for debugging connection issues?

Improve this question
1
  • Any user that doesn't have a private key that corresponds to the public key(s) in the target machine's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file should be prompted for regular password authentication. Commented Feb 2, 2018 at 19:33

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
3

You can turn off public key authentication on a per-connection basis (and also disable connection sharing so that the new session does not connect over an already established one) via:

$ ssh -o ControlPath=none -o PubkeyAuthentication=no serverhost
Improve this answer

You must log in to answer this question.

Start asking to get answers

Find the answer to your question by asking.

Ask question

Explore related questions

See similar questions with these tags.