04-22-2006, 11:46 AM
Quote:Here is a quick way to drastically improve the security of your OpenSSH server installations...
From personal experience with clients over the years, I have found that most administrators tend to install an SSH server and leave it at its default settings, typically to allow password authentication and root logins. Many don't even know that there is an alternative (key-based authentication), or they think the alternative is too hard to use. It is not - it takes all of five minutes to configure key-based authentication and disable root logins, and the security gains are enormous. Below, I'll step you through the process. I add comments where a step may not be needed.
Configuring and Testing Key-Based Authentication
This is not really a hard as it seems....
full article: http://geekpit.blogspot.com/2006/04/five...e-ssh.html