Turn off SSH password and root login

sshd accepted passwords from the internet (about 12,000 failed logins a
day) and root logins with a key. Keys only now, no root, no X11 forwarding.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Phil
2026-10-31 12:17:45 -06:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent f8197418d3
commit dff614b481
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content: |
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";
# Keys only. sshd_config's Include comes first and sshd keeps the first value
# it reads, so this drop-in overrides the defaults further down. Root has no
# keys, and Ansible logs in as the regular user.
- name: SSH - keys only, no root login, no X11
ansible.builtin.copy:
dest: /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/10-hardening.conf
owner: root
mode: '0644'
content: |
PasswordAuthentication no
KbdInteractiveAuthentication no
PermitRootLogin no
X11Forwarding no
validate: /usr/sbin/sshd -t -f %s
notify: reload ssh