[Chester LUG] Digitalocean users.. a question

[Stuart Burns]

Topic for tonight sorted then ;)

On 30 July 2015 at 13:23, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, I'd agree with Mike on that. If you're creating the VPS manually you
> could use a temporary password for root, then create a standard user and
> disable the root.
>
> If you can, I'd also recommend locking down SSH to specific IPs or at
> least ranges.
>
> On 30 July 2015 at 13:17, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me> wrote:
>
>> The initial root login is designed to give you an easy way in so you can
>> configure the system, locking down root login and removing that key from
>> the system (after adding additional users and allowing them to sudo to
>> root.)
>>
>> Think of that initial SSH key as a deployment key - login once with it,
>> then use Ansible to setup your system with new users and various other
>> state.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mike.
>> On 30 Jul 2015 9:50 pm, "Stuart Burns" <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> I am just in the process of moving over some sites to DO and I thought I
>>> would start using the stored SSH key system you can use when deploying your
>>> droplets. It works fine, no issues. Just I dont really feel comfortable
>>> logging in as root directly. Years of non root logins make me feel itchy
>>> about this.
>>>
>>> What does everyone else think? (I know you can alter and someone trying
>>> to crack a proper PKI implementation may have a long wait!) I was more
>>> concerned with it being out the box functionality.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Stuart
>>>
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