Securing SSH is one of the most important task of a system administrator. CyberPanel allows you to change SSH port, disable root login and save your SSH keys.
Server > Security > Secure SSH
On this page you can control two settings:
To add your SSH keys, you first need to generate a pair of a public/private key.
On your local machine
cd ~/.ssh ssh-keygen -t rsa -f cyberpanel -C root
This will generate two files cyberpanel
and cyberpanel.pub
.
You need to copy contents of cyberpanel.pub
and paste in the following box:
Now on your local machine you can login without needing a root password using:
ssh -i ~/.ssh/cyberpanel.pub root@<IP Address>
This step is optional, you can create SSH keys to be injected when new virtual machines are being created.