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Ansible turned off password logins on every server and sshd read another file first

By Sergey Shinder · DEV Community · 10/27/2026

In August an external penetration test listed twenty three of our Linux servers as accepting SSH password logins. Our hardening playbook had set PasswordAuthentication no on every one of them since the day they were built, and its compliance run, in check mode every night, reported nothing to…

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