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16 March 2024

  • curprev 09:5209:52, 16 March 2024Ebroch talk contribs 4,007 bytes +4,007 Created page with "Having done a basic install of QMT on Centos 5.4, I wanted to add a number of security-related features to protect my server. === SSH === Create a normal system user and set a password: <pre> adduser -g wheel <username> passwd <username> </pre> The above already added the user to the group wheel, so that you can later become root using '''su -'''. Edit '''/etc/ssh/sshd_config''' and set the option ''PermitRootLogin'' to ''no''. Now, restart sshd by running: <pre>..."