Hardening Ubuntu
This is a short list, largely borrowed from digitalocean Log in with your provided root credentials ssh root@123.123.123.123 Create a user (just hit enter and skip the info if you want) adduser username Enable the user to use sudo usermod -aG sudo username Disable root SSH login nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config Modify the file like below. Pick a high port number between 1024 and 34627. Hit ctrl-x, ‘Y’ and finally hit enter to save....