Disable Direct Root Login

Allowing the root user to login directly is a major security issue, we’ll show you how to disable it so you can still login as root but just not directly, reducing the security issue…

This will force a hacker to have to guess 2 seperate passwords to gain root access. (you do have 2 seperate passwords for admin and root right?)  What happens is you’ll first need to login as your admin user in SSH, then switch to the super user with the su command to get root.
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Secure ssh

If you are servers are been scanned by automated scripts who are trying to break into your system and cracking passwords, you better protect yourself. Here are some simple methods that you can implement to help secure them. There is nothing unique about the suggestions They can be found in any number of places but you can never hear the information enough.
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