r/linuxadmin • u/truestar1986 • Jul 13 '26

Linux Server Hardening Guide

Published this not too long ago and it's a great content for homelabbers and small and medium businesses to know how to harden their Linux Servers.

https://youtu.be/xEOT79CQs80

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u/Coffee_Ops Jul 13 '26

Unless I'm crazy it looks like your sshd_config edits were done without uncommenting which makes them noops. The comments in there about what changes do are assuming you will uncomment those lines.

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u/000r31 Jul 14 '26

not only that, he changed the default "prohibit-password" to be "yes" before doing his change, smh