diff --git a/reference/docs-conceptual/core-powershell/SSH-Remoting-in-PowerShell-Core.md b/reference/docs-conceptual/core-powershell/SSH-Remoting-in-PowerShell-Core.md index 1361d3a140b0..59f3f1acf963 100644 --- a/reference/docs-conceptual/core-powershell/SSH-Remoting-in-PowerShell-Core.md +++ b/reference/docs-conceptual/core-powershell/SSH-Remoting-in-PowerShell-Core.md @@ -187,6 +187,15 @@ Configuration of multi-factor authentication is outside the scope of this docume Refer to documentation for SSH on how to correctly configure multi-factor authentication and validate it works outside of PowerShell before attempting to use it with PowerShell remoting. +## Authentication + +PowerShell remoting over SSH relies on the authentication exchange between the SSH client and SSH service and does not implement any authentication schemes itself. +This means that any configured authentication schemes including multi-factor authentication is handled by SSH and independent of PowerShell. +For example, you can configure the SSH service to require public key authentication as well as a one-time password for added security. +Configuration of multi-factor authentication is outside the scope of this documentation. +Refer to documentation for SSH on how to correctly configure multi-factor authentication and validate it works outside of PowerShell +before attempting to use it with PowerShell remoting. + ## PowerShell Remoting Example The easiest way to test remoting is to try it on a single machine. In this example, we create a