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How to enable Public key based authentication and Allow root login in SSHD

169  admin July 11, 2024  Features & Functionalities, Technical

Enabling Key-Based Authentication and Root Login in SSH

Overview: This guide outlines the steps to enable key-based authentication and allow root login in SSH for improved security and administrative access.

  1. Open the SSH configuration file using a text editor.
  2. Locate the PubKeyAuthentication parameter in the configuration file.
  3. Set it to 'yes'.

vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

PubkeyAuthentication yes

PermitRootLogin yes

    4. Restart the ssh daemon so that the new settings come into effect. 

:~# service sshd restart
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