i want to remotely ssh to my home server, and I was wondering if I could just forward port 22 with disabling password login and use pubkey authentication will be safe enough?

  • astronautcytoma@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have a port 22 ssh process that denies everything, and a separate ssh process on a different port that accepts logins as normal. So someone could obviously find the hidden one, but it won’t be the apparently-functional one that they can hit day and night and never get any results from.

    • Swanners@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Fair enough. If you can run firewall rules then great. But opening up something like ssh to the internet is a risky risk. Cert auth is not a bad way to go in that scenario.

      • astronautcytoma@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I agree entirely. The box I have this on is my piddle-around server. A long time ago I used to administer a medium-sized cluster of Linux boxes and they were all cert auth, and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Mostly, I think it’s fun to see what usernames and passwords the scripts and bots and hackers try on my neutered SSH.