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SSH: Best Practices

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 18, 2008

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“Are you using SSH in the best way possible? Have you configured
it to be as limited and secure as possible? The goal of this
document is to kick in the new year with some best practices for
SSH: why you should use them, how to set them up, and how to verify
that they are in place.

“All of the examples below assume that you are using EnGarde
Secure Linux but any modern Linux distribution will do just fine
since, as far as I know, everybody ships OpenSSH…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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