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Restrict SSH Users on Ubuntu VPS

Category: Security

Limit SSH access—a security tweak—on an Ubuntu VPS—edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
AllowUsers user1 user2
restart:
systemctl restart ssh
On Vultr test with
ssh user3@ip
—expect denial Secures hosting—restricts CLI access to approved users

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