OT-ish F9 Laptop\USB-Stick CentOS5.x Server SSH Access

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Frank Murphy wrote:
> What do I do to only allow remote access via ssh to my centos box.
> From my laptop F9+, or an F9+ usb-stick
> 
> Asking here as centos forums, don't like general Linux q's.
> 
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
You might want to only allow logins with a key pair - this prevents
anyone from cracking the password. Use a good pass phrase on the
private key. Then add a rate limiter to ssh connections attempts -
fail-to-ban or a firewall rule, just to cut down on all the junk in
the logs.

Mikkel
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