so you have your fresh new Ubuntu system and you log in via ssh to be greeted with “Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. bla bal bla” so you fire up vim and change the good ol /etc/motd to sometime a little more along the lines of threating…
A while ago I wrote a bit about Shared Key Authentication for SSH, and discussed a bit about the benefits of enabling this on your own servers or even desktops. one of which is protecting your server against brute force attacks. However we never discussed that in order for your system to be truly protected…
If you’re like me, you find yourself connecting to the same servers 15-20 times a day. Why not set up Shared Key Authentication? It makes establishing an SSH connection much easier but also makes setting up scripting much easier as well. However, before skipping on down to the instructions, please make note of the following….