To secure my droplets, for ssh I usually replace text password with public key and change 22 to a non standard port. In adjusting my firewall settings I’ve managed to get locked out of my own account. The emergency recovery console has saved me. In order to prevent getting locked out, what does Digital Ocean require - port 22? Text passwords?
In a related question - /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d has two files: 50-cloud-init.conf 60-cloudimg-settings.conf regarding text passwords, one says yes, the other no. Can you explain this? TIA
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Heya, @enews
The recovery console does not use the SSH protocol, and you can always use it in case you get locked out because of firewall management.
You can use the DigitalOcean Cloud Firewall or UFW to allow only certain IPs on the SSH Port.
You can verify what’s active by running:
sshd -T | grep passwordauthentication
This will show you what the final active value is after the includes are applied.
Hope that this helps!
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