> In doing this is their danger of making an error and locking myself out > of my computer, if so what to avoid? You can use dummy account for that, on both ends. You can force SSH (client) to only use keyes, instead of passwords. You can run SSH in a container, to learn how to set it up. If you break thy system inside of the container, you can just restart it and try again. You can try (never did this one) to run another SSH server on different port - as a "backdoor". (Allow that port in firewall) Once you are confident, you can start using your intended client, still with dummy server (either in a container or a dummy user account). After everything will work, you can attempt to switch to "production". If you are locking root account, set sudo permissions to another user account. Restart both devices on both ends (at once) to make sure you have correct permanent configuration. -- Michal Schorm Software Engineer Core Services - Databases Team Red Hat -- On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 1:05 PM Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've been reading the thread about detecting hack attempts and I am > interested in in setting up "key based authentication" as described > [perhaps] in > "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Deployment_Guide/s2-ssh-configuration-keypairs.html"; > > In doing this is their danger of making an error and locking myself out > of my computer, if so what to avoid? I've made some catastrophic errors > in the not very distant past that required a new system re-installation > and would prefer not repeating that. > > Suggestions, thoughts? > > Bob > > -- > Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, > Fedora Linux-31 XFCE > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
