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