Securing SSH - aaralik1/SYS-255 GitHub Wiki

In today's lab, we focused on how to secure ssh. I began this by using the command vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config. I was able to edit the ssh configuration and so I changed PermitRootLogin from yes to no.

The screenshot below shows that I tried logging as root using PuTTY and I received a couple of access denied messages.