Monthly Archives: March 2014

Restrict SSH login using SSH keys to a particular IP address

Because most passwords are quite short so you can remember them as well as it is annoying to type the password all the time, You might have already considered creating SSH-keys and configured the SSH passwordless login with SSH-key for your server. But how to secure the access with SSH-key? Continue reading

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Secure SSH server access

With a server running, SSH is one of the services nearly instantly gets checked out. Only after a couple of hours of going live with your server, you might already notice someone trying to login with passwords from a dictionary. There are some things you can do to reduce those hacking attempts to your SSH server. Continue reading

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