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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