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I have a confession to make. I never took the time to switch my various VPS to key-based login. Sure, I changed the SSH port and disabled root login, but so far I have actually relied on fail2ban and reeeeeeally long passwords.

Then I stumbled upon a very interesting blog post by Elena, which pointed my to an excellent video by Veronica. And my mind was blown!

I always thought that setting up keys and getting them to the servers was a lot of work. Turns out, it isn’t. I was done in about 30 minutes, which included watching the video twice and taking everything step by step. And keeping a proper SSH config file will make my life much more comfortable from now on.

My home-based servers will also be switch from passwords to keys soon, even though they’re not ssh-able from the outside at all.

Thanks again to Elena & Veronica for the precious infos.

news.elenarossini.com/my-so-ca…
youtube.com/watch?v=3FKsdbjzBc…

@Elena Rossini ⁂
@Veronica Explains

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