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Disable Direct Root Login
Posted on July 21st, 2008 No commentsAllowing 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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OpenSSH
Posted on July 9th, 2008 No commentsOpenSSH is one of the most useful tools available. With it, you can access systems remotely and securely, transfer files securely (using scp, sftp, or even rsync over ssh), execute single commands on remote systems, secure normally insecure services, and much more….
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