From 4274f3703ffaaa0420c8af6f479550cf98237186 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tai Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 15:35:30 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- initial ubuntu setup/README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/initial ubuntu setup/README.md b/initial ubuntu setup/README.md index 6574f8d..a355988 100644 --- a/initial ubuntu setup/README.md +++ b/initial ubuntu setup/README.md @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ If you'd like to learn how to create an SSH key do so [here](https://github.com/ ``` sudo sed --in-place 's/^PermitRootLogin.*/PermitRootLogin prohibit-password/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config sudo sed --in-place 's/#PasswordAuthentication yes/PasswordAuthentication no/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config -systemctl restart sshd +sudo systemctl restart sshd ``` Using two sed commands above is the short way to disable root login. To disable it manually you can just do `sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config` find a line called PermitRootLogin modify it.