Secure SSH with Google Authenticator Two-Factor Authentication on CentOS 7 | Linux Today

Secure SSH with Google Authenticator Two-Factor Authentication on CentOS 7

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Ahmed Qadeer
May 22, 2015

SSH access to servers is always critical and you might want to find ways to improve the security of your SSH login. In this article we will see how we can secure SSH with simple two factor authentication by using Google Authenticator.

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Ahmed Qadeer

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