vim-ale/ssh-harden/README.md

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SSH Prohibit Password	https://webinstall.dev/ssh-prohibit-password	SSH Prohibit Password: Because friends don't let friends ssh with passwords	true

Cheat Sheet

Will check if your system This will check if your Modern SSH deployments are key-only and don't allow root login. However, there's a lot of legacy systems out there.

ssh-harden will

1. Check that some /home/*/.ssh/authorized_keys is non-empty
2. Check that /etc/sudoers.d is not empty
3. Optionally create a sudoer for a given user and group
4. Disable root login
5. Disable Password and Challenge login

USAGE
    ssh-harden [username] [sudo-group]

EXAMPLES

    sudo ssh-harden
    sudo ssh-harden app
    sudo ssh-harden "$(id -n -u)" wheel

How to check for sudoers

sudo sh -c 'grep "^\w\+ ALL=" /etc/sudoers.d/*'

How to check for authorized ssh users

Quick 'n' Easy

sudo sh -c "grep -E '^(ssh|ec)' /home/*/.ssh/authorized_keys" |
    cut -d' ' -f3 |
    sort -u

Detailed

my_authorized=''
for my_file in /home/*/.ssh/authorized_keys; do
    # if no files match the glob becomes a literal string
    if test "${my_file}" = '/home/*/.ssh/authorized_keys'; then
        break
    fi

    echo "${my_file} authorizes:"
    if ! grep -q -E '^(ssh|ec)' "${my_file}"; then
        echo "    (none, empty file)"
        continue
    fi

    grep '^(ssh|ec)' "${my_file}" | cut -d' ' -f3 | while read -r my_comment; do
        echo "    ${my_comment}"
    done
    my_authorized='true'
done

if test -z "${my_authorized}"; then
    echo >&2 ""
    echo >&2 "ERROR"
    echo >&2 "    No authorized remote users found."
    echo >&2 ""
    exit 1
fi

How to add passwordless sudoer

echo "app ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" | sudo tee /etc/sudoers.d/app

How to copy allowed keys from root to the new user:

mkdir -p /home/app/.ssh/
chmod 0700 /home/app/.ssh/

cat "$HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys" >> /home/app/.ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 0600 /home/app/.ssh/authorized_keys

chown -R app:app /home/app/.ssh/