Secure your servers
Apr 07, 2020
4 minutes
No matter what you do with your Linux servers you will almost certainly have SSH access to them. Indeed this might be the only access you have, so it would be wise to secure it. Naturally, you will already be using a strong password and will have already turned off SSH access for the root account (if you use a login for it). The latter is very important, but generally not necessary on Debian/ Ubuntu servers which use sudo for elevating privileges. Correcting it on other distros is just a matter of adding
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KEYS ADD EXTRA SECURITY “While the password you set here may be brute-forced or known to an attacker, they still need access to the keys.”
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to the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and restarting the
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