How to enable SSH service on Fedora Linux? By default, it seems ssh is not enabled. Fedora may not have sshd service installed/enabled by default. You will need to install and configure it by yourself. The following instructions is for Fedora 22 as an example. First, install the sshd server by # dnf install openssh-server […]
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How to disable SSH reverse DNS lookup on Linux?
How to disable the reverse DNS lookup by the SSD server on Linux? To turn off reverse DNS lookups of the SSH daemon, log on the server and add UseDNS no to /etc/ssh/sshd_config. And remember to restart the sshd service by service sshd restart or systemctl restart sshd.service or other commands depending on your system. […]
Basic iptables configuration for Linux
What is a good basic iptables config? Basic rules needed: Allow incoming TCP to 22 for SSH but blocks all others. Allow outgoing TCP/UDP connections. You may consider using the following rules as a start: for tables in iptables ip6tables ; do # Flush existing rules $tables -F # Default policy $tables -P INPUT DROP […]
How to use iptables to limit rates new SSH incoming connections from each IP on Linux?
How to use iptables to limit rates new SSH incoming connections from each IP on Linux? For example, at most 6 SSH connection attempts every 60 seconds. You may use these rules (skip the first one, if you have set the basic rules): for tables in iptables ip6tables ; do # Allow established inbound connections […]
Set Up SSH Server on Windows XP
It is useful sometimes to set up a sshd server on a Windows. One example is using remote forwards tunnel to pass through the firewall. My platform is Windows XP SP3. The sshd server is sshwindows. It can be dowloaded from here: http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/ . The version I use here is 3.8p1-1 20040709. It is really […]