Comment on Do I Need to Harden SSH over Tor?

marcos@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you don’t have any good reason not to

  Spoiler alert: you probably don’t.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is the internet. If you poke the bear, somebody will come-up with a completely reasonable use case of password authentication that happened once somewhere on the world.

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    • thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Easy. I have servers that are only available on my local network and lots of different devices that I MIGHT want to use to access those servers. I haven’t bothered to make sure my key is on EVERY SINGLE DEVICE and some of them, I might not actually even WANT my key on as they’re not terribly well secured and they might leave my house (my Windows gaming laptop I haven’t used in six months comes to mind).

      But for cloud accessible servers… yeah.

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      • EarMaster@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You know you’re allowed (some might even say supposed) to have different keys for different machines. They’re basically free to generate and take up to no space.

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Playing with a Raspberry Pi inside my own home network with nothing important going on and I turned the Pi off when I’m done. Like why worry about it at that point?

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      • Acters@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, but I usually add my public key to the authorized_keys file and turn off password authentication once i do login with a password. On top of that, I have a sshpass one line command that takes care of this for me. It’s much easier than trying to manually type a password for the next time. I save it and just run it every time I think about using password login. Next time I need to ssh, I know the password login is not necessary.

        sshpass -p ‘PASSWORD’ ssh USER@IP.ADDRESS “echo ‘cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub’ > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys && echo ‘Match User !root PasswordAuthentication no Match all’ > /etc/ssh/sshd_config’ && exit” && ssh USER@IP.ADDRESS

        At the next reboot, your system will now only accept key logins, except for root. I hope the root user password is secure. I don’t require it for root because if a hacker does gain shell access, a password(or priv esc exploit) is all they need to gain root shell. It is also a safety net in case you need to login and lost your private key.

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      • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, that’s not a good reason.

        It’s much easier to authorize a key than to input your password on every kind of interaction.

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    • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If the is, I’d love to hear it. But even JuiceSSH on Android has supported keys for like the last decade.

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  • someonesmall@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    30 character password + fail2ban after one failed attempt. Why not?

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    • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      WCGW?

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      • someonesmall@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Tell me

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      30 character

      You’ve gotta pump those numbers, those are rookie numbers. (I have a vps that has several times that figure)

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      • someonesmall@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Did you read my message? After one failed attempt you will get banned.

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