sshd_config changes in Catalina?

I would like to exclude password authentication on my system, using only public key. In the past I have changed /etc/ssh/sshd_config and that was all but with SIP I cannot change sshd_config any more.


How do I make these changes on Catalina?

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To answer my own question ... you need to edit the right file. Things have changed with SIP and you need to be clearer about what you want to change.


/etc has always been an alias for /private/etc and it still is but /etc is on a read-only fiel system, /private/etc is not.


sudo -e /private/etc/ssh/sshd_config

is the correct way to make these changes.

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To answer my own question ... you need to edit the right file. Things have changed with SIP and you need to be clearer about what you want to change.


/etc has always been an alias for /private/etc and it still is but /etc is on a read-only fiel system, /private/etc is not.


sudo -e /private/etc/ssh/sshd_config

is the correct way to make these changes.

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