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Re: [LUG] Security and SSH

 

On 21 Jan, 2011, at 8:49 am, Neil Winchurst wrote:

I think that I would like to understand it all a bit better. I will be asking for some help on setting it up therefore, thanks Phil.


Cool. The files we'll be dealing with are $HOME/.ssh/config and (depending on distro) /etc/sshd_config or /etc/ssh/sshd_config. You need to edit and save the latter with superuser privileges. If you go for public keys, we'll also be appending keys to $HOME/.ssh/ authorized_keys on the server.

The sshd_config file is liberally commented, but not everything in the comments is straightforward to understand.

It should be OK to keep this on-list, so long as we don't include passwords, passphrases and private (not public) keys -- we'll get to those in a bit -- but anything you're not sure about, take it offline.

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Phil Hudson                      PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63
http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz                 @UWascalWabbit


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