SSH in 2 steps on Linux with Google Authenticator

Posted by linuxaria on Dec 29, 2013 8:02 PM EDT
linuxaria.com; By Alessio Bash
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Many security policies require you to change the port number of the SSH service to ensure greater security in a Linux system. Situation now used throughout the IT world and used mostly by users who have their own private server. Today I want to show you how to add another security layer without having to change the SSH port. To do this we’ll incorporate the famous Google Authenticator to our ssh service, in this way we’ll have a safe, two steps security, by entering our password and the combination given from the GA application. Let’s see how to do this…

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