Force SSH to prompt for password
I've long used public/private keys as my default way of authenticating via SSH, for the following reasons: I don't need to share my credentials with whoever creates the account.I can…
Keeping an idle SSH connection alive
One of the servers which I login to on a regular basis has the annoying habit of dropping any SSH connections where there has been no activity for more than…
Fixing slow and blocked SSH connections with UseDNS
In the configuration shipped with many Linux distributions, including Debian, OpenSSH will attempt to lookup the reverse DNS records for the source IP of all incoming connections. If a result is found,…