I've setup my Epia server at home to allow SSH logins on port 22 from a standard user account that I've created. I have setup the ssh_config file to DenyUser root, DenyGroup admins and AllowUser <user account>. I've also set it up to accept connections from my internal network 192.168.0.0, my work network and my workstation here (as I'm not sure how the proxy works yet).
Is there anything else I can do to secure SSH? I've had a few "hacking" attempts since I set it up so I think at the moment I've done all I can. I have a strong password (8 characters, mix of upper/lowercase & numbers) and setup Cron to apt-get update/upgrade every night, though maybe that's a bit risky if anything goes wrong. I could change the listen port on SSH to something else though I doubt it'll do much?
I also have ClamAV running a full scan at midnight as I also have Samba installed to accept from 192.168.0.0.
Is there anything else I can do to secure SSH? I've had a few "hacking" attempts since I set it up so I think at the moment I've done all I can. I have a strong password (8 characters, mix of upper/lowercase & numbers) and setup Cron to apt-get update/upgrade every night, though maybe that's a bit risky if anything goes wrong. I could change the listen port on SSH to something else though I doubt it'll do much?
I also have ClamAV running a full scan at midnight as I also have Samba installed to accept from 192.168.0.0.
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