[wellylug] got ya / 4

Edmund A. Hintz ed at hintz.org
Tue Oct 12 16:25:18 NZDT 2004


On Tue, Oct 12, 2004, Ewen McNeill thus spake:

>Providing you have good passwords, disable the accounts you don't need
>anyone logging into, and (ideally) disable direct root logins it
>shouldn't be a major concern.  Oh, and keep your systems patched.

    Or go super paranoid - disable password logins altogether and only
allow ssh keys. Also use the AllowUsers bit and reduce to only users with
a reason to ssh in...

Fun with OpenSSH... ;-)

Regards,

Ed Hintz
ed at hintz.org




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