Published on : April 12, 2019 by Nidhin George
Do we need security through obscurity? My answer would be ‘yes‘, we need security through obscurity as well. Well changing the ssh port from the default 22 to a non-default one is desired and is recommended by me. But do not simply rely on this method though for SSH security. On a publicly accessible server […]
Published on : September 22, 2014 by Karthikeyan B.
My requirement was to rsync /etc/yum.repos.d/ with another server running the SSH on port 1791. Normal rsync won’t work and we need to specify the rsync custom ssh port in the rsync command itself. The command I had to execute is below Rsync over custom SSH port Rsync using SSH key: rsync using […]
Published on : August 30, 2014 by Irshad K.
Some times we may unable to access the server through SSH. This can be due to multiple reasons like custom ssh port, disabled root login, non-availability of ssh user credentials or even due to the absence of wheel user privilege for the SSH user. During such instances we will be helpless even though the SSH […]
Published on : July 24, 2014 by George K.
Disable root login is a security measure that can be used on a Linux server. One of the biggest security holes you could open on your server is to allow directly logging in as root through ssh, because any cracker can attempt to brute force your root password and potentially get access to your system […]
Published on : January 26, 2010 by George K.
SSH passwordless login to another server can be very useful when you want to configure a remote backup server or when migrating servers. For enabling this you need to have openSSH installed on the server. Here is a tutorial on how to configure password less SSH login to server ‘mars’ from server ‘Earth‘ 1. Login […]
