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Managing SSH Access
In this lab, we will restrict SSH access to specific user accounts from specific sources. This will allow us to granularly control SSH access to a host. *This course is not approved or sponsored by Red Hat.*

Lab Info
Table of Contents
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Challenge
Allow Susan SSH access from host susan-ws.office21.net
- Edit the
/etc/ssh/sshd_config
file with the following line:
sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
- enter password for cloud_user
AllowUsers [email protected]
- Edit the
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Challenge
Permit root SSH login from the subnet 10.0.1.0/24
- The first step is to permit root logins by removing the comment in front of the line
#PermitRootLogin yes
in the/etc/ssh/sshd_conf
file. - Secondly, we need to add
[email protected]/24
to theAllowUsers
line in the/etc/ssh/sshd_config
file. - Now we need to restart the
sshd
service so the changes we made will take affect:
systemctl restart sshd
- The first step is to permit root logins by removing the comment in front of the line
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