i want to remotely ssh to my home server, and I was wondering if I could just forward port 22 with disabling password login and use pubkey authentication will be safe enough?

  • @SwannersB
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    17 months ago

    Fair enough. If you can run firewall rules then great. But opening up something like ssh to the internet is a risky risk. Cert auth is not a bad way to go in that scenario.

    • @astronautcytomaB
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      17 months ago

      I agree entirely. The box I have this on is my piddle-around server. A long time ago I used to administer a medium-sized cluster of Linux boxes and they were all cert auth, and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Mostly, I think it’s fun to see what usernames and passwords the scripts and bots and hackers try on my neutered SSH.