Evaggelos Balaskas - System Engineer

centos7 and sshd

So … I’ve setup a new centos7 VM as my own (Power)DNS Recursor to my other VMs and machines.

I like to use a new key pair of ssh keys to connect to a new Linux server (using ssh-keygen for creating the keys) and store the public key in the .ssh/authorized_keys of the user I will use to this new server. This user can run sudo afterworks.

ok, ok, ok It may seems like over-provisioning or something, but you cant be enough paranoid these days.

Although, my basic sshd conf/setup is pretty simple:

Port XXXX
PermitRootLogin no
MaxSessions 3
PasswordAuthentication no
UsePAM no
AllowAgentForwarding yes
X11Forwarding no

restarting sshd with systemd:

# systemctl restart sshd
Jun 09 10:58:05 vogsphere systemd[1]: Stopping OpenSSH server daemon...
Jun 09 10:58:05 vogsphere sshd[563]: Received signal 15; terminating.
Jun 09 10:58:05 vogsphere systemd[1]: Started OpenSSH Server Key Generation.
Jun 09 10:58:05 vogsphere systemd[1]: Starting OpenSSH server daemon...
Jun 09 10:58:05 vogsphere systemd[1]: Started OpenSSH server daemon.
Jun 09 10:58:05 vogsphere sshd[10633]: WARNING: 'UsePAM no' is not supported
in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and may cause several problems.
Jun 09 10:58:05 vogsphere sshd[10633]: Server listening on XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX port XXXX.

And there is a WARNING !!!

“UsePAM no” is not supported

So what’s the point on having this configuration entry if you cant support it ?

Tag: centos7, sshd, ssh
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