Secure SSH - 2018 October - SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.6p1 Ubuntu-4

secure-ssh

# SSH to your server

# Change directory to /etc/ssh
cd /etc/ssh/

# Create a /etc/ssh back folder
mkdir -p ~/backup/etc/ssh/

# Move the unsecure host keys backup folder
mv ssh_host_{ecdsa,dsa,rsa}* ~/backup/etc/ssh/

# Update ssh configration to remove unscure MACs and Ciphers
vi /etc/ssh/ssh_config

# in /etc/ssh/ssh_config file comment out the current configuration for Ciphers and MACs and add

-- /etc/ssh/ssh_config --
#Ciphers aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-cbc,3des-cbc
Ciphers aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr
#MACs hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,[email protected]
MACs [email protected],[email protected],[email protected],[email protected],hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512
-------------------------

# and apply same changes to /etc/ssh/sshd_config