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Secure Your VPS: Disable Password Login

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💡 Servers are often a target for SSH brute-forcing attacks. Disable password login to prevent an attacker from gaining access to your server.

👉🏼 Use a keypair for authentication and set PasswordAuthentication to "no" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.

Set PasswordAuthentication to no in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to disable password login.

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