---
id: V-71959
status: implemented
tag: sshd
---

The ``HostbasedAuthentication`` configuration is set to ``no`` in
``/etc/ssh/sshd_config`` and sshd is restarted.

Deployers can opt out of this change by setting the following Ansible variable:

.. code-block:: yaml

    security_sshd_disallow_host_based_auth: no