SSH: Security Cheat Sheet

Disable ssh by passwordsed -i 's/PasswordAuthentication yes/PasswordAuthentication no/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Disable root loginsed -i 's/^PermitRootLogin yes/#PermitRootLogin yes/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Enable/Disable SSH Host Key CheckingStrictHostKeyChecking yes change ~/.ssh/config
Protect SSH server from brute force attacksusing fail2ban command-line tool

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