Hello, I have some suggestions that I did in my relays to be listed in the relay guide, they are: 1. create a non root user add that user to sudo group: root acess should be disabled from ssh, so we need to create another user, the set PermitRootLogin no in the sshd_config 2. ssh hardening 2.1 get new ssh host keys: delete old keys (we cannot be sure if new keys were generated, so its good to generate new keys) ``` sudo -s cd /etc/ssh rm ssh_host_* ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -f ssh_host_rsa_key ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f ssh_host_ed25519_key ``` 2.2 disable insecure ssh ciphers: openssh uses some insecure ciphers, se in https://stribika.github.io/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.html just put the followings lines in the sshd_config ``` HostKeyAlgorithms ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com,ssh-rsa-cert-v01@openssh.com,ssh-ed25519,ssh-rsa KexAlgorithms curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512,diffie-hellman-group14-sha256 Ciphers chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes128-ctr MACs hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com,umac-128-etm@openssh.com ``` 2.3 disable password authentication and only use public key authentication: in your machine run: ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -o -a 300 -f ~/.ssh/key then copy to the server: ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/key user@server then try login in with the key ( -i points to the keyfile) then make sure that on the sshd_config has this settings: ``` PubkeyAuthentication yes PasswordAuthentication yes PermitEmptyPasswords no ``` 2.4 (optional) change the default port, there are alot of bots trying to get in , so changing the port makes sense to make their job more difficult run: to get an random port number ``` python -c 'from random import SystemRandom as r; print(r().randint(49152,65535))' ``` the change it in the Port setting in the sshd_config 2.5 limit the brute force, you can use fail2ban, but I find it simpler to use ufw and instead of allowing ssh use the limit. 3.1 enable swap, sometimes when linux is out of memory then it kills the tor process, so creating swap prevents that, or even better use zram. **Trac**: **Username**: caioau