Re: SSH Password-Guessing Attacks

"Simon Green" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.waikato
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On Thu, 16 May 2019, at 12:43 AM, Peter Reutemann wrote:
> Only allow key-based logins?

^ this. Enabling password based logins via ssh is just asking to be hacked, regardless of what port you are running ssh on. All boxes I have control over only allow an rsa key to login in via ssh/

Digital Ocean have a useful guide on how to set this up for various distros
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-ssh-keys-on-ubuntu-1804

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Simon
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