Security News > 2022 > July > 5 tips for securing SSH on your Linux servers

SSH is a tool I use every single day to log into remote Linux servers and take care of my admin tasks.

Here are my five most straightforward tips for securing SSH on your Linux machines.

Within the SSH daemon file, we want to prevent users with blank passwords from gaining access.

Using SSH key authentication is much more secure than using standard passwords.

If you've changed the default SSH port, you can't use the ssh-copy-id command because it doesn't accept arguments.

In about 5 minutes you've locked down SSH on your server.

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