{"id":588,"date":"2014-01-14T22:18:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T22:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vickistan.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2015-12-03T15:17:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T15:17:41","slug":"allow-ssh-only-as-a-single-user-or-from-specific-ips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"Allow ssh only as a single user or from specific IPs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following are the relevant config bits in \/etc\/ssh\/sshd_config<\/p>\n

# disable password authentication globally
\nPasswordAuthentication no<\/p>\n

Either by username:
\n# now re-enable it down at the very end of the sshd_config file like thus
\nMatch User rack
\nPasswordAuthentication yes<\/p>\n

or by IP:<\/p>\n

# now re-enable it down at the very end of the sshd_config file like thus
\nMatch Address 72.3.128.84,69.20.0.1,50.57.22.125,120.136.34.22,212.100.225.49,212.100.225.42,119.9.4.2,67.192.155.96\/27,120.136.33.192\/27,
\n69.20.80.0\/28,72.4.123.216,89.234.21.64\/28,173.203.5.160\/27,173.203.32.136\/29,64.49.200.192\/27,166.78.7.146,50.56.249.239,166.78.107.18,
\n162.209.4.155,95.138.174.55,162.13.1.53,119.9.12.91,119.9.12.98
\nPasswordAuthentication yes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following are the relevant config bits in \/etc\/ssh\/sshd_config # disable password authentication globally PasswordAuthentication no Either by username: # now re-enable it down at the very end of the sshd_config file like thus Match User rack PasswordAuthentication yes or … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-ssh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}