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Saturday, June 15, 2013

Disable SSH Direct Root Login

First you need to add new admin user

1,adduser admin

2,passwd admin

Please keep admin password

3, vi /etc/group

Make sure admin user wheel settings

wheel:x:10:root,admin

1. SSH into your server as ‘admin’ and gain root access by su

2. Copy and paste this line to edit the file for SSH logins
vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

3. Find the line
Protocol 2, 1

4. Uncomment it and change it to look like
Protocol 2

5. Next, find the line
PermitRootLogin yes

6. Uncomment it and make it look like PermitRootLogin no

7. Save the file Ctrl+X then Y then enter

8. Now you can restart SSH
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd restart

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