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Tighten Up Your VPS With an SSH Audit! Let's Look at the ssh-audit Package...Does OpenBSD Score Higher Than Debian?

Aug 25, 2025

The SSH protocol is surprisingly complex, though the reason why it has to be makes sense once you think about everything it has to do. Using the ssh-audit package, you can audit your SSH server and tighten it up with an easy step-by-step instructions.

Tighten Up Your VPS With an SSH Audit! Let's Look at the ssh-audit Package...Does OpenBSD Score Higher Than Debian?

Dropbear in 2025: Still the LowEnd SSH Server of Choice?

raindog308

Jan 20, 2025

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The very first tutorial ever published on LowEndTalk - way back in 2008 - was on replacing OpenSSH with Dropbear. Is it still relevant for the LowEnd community in 2025?

Dropbear in 2025: Still the LowEnd SSH Server of Choice?

RackNerd and Ezeelogin: Securing and Scaling SSH

raindog308

Feb 10, 2023

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Ezeelogin is an SSH management platform that provides two factor authentication, SAML Authentication, session recording, IAM, RBAC, PAM, and lots of other important acronyms. Community provider RackNerd recently deployed it and explains the product's benefits to providers and users.

OpenSSH Suffered a "Near Miss" But is Now Post-Quantum

raindog308

Apr 23, 2022

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According to the change log, OpenSSH 9.0 suffered a "near miss" - a potential vulnerability that was found and fixed before anyone could attempt to exploit it: "Near miss in sshd(8): fix an integer ov...

Replacing OpenSSH with Dropbear

LEA

Mar 30, 2008

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When you are using a low-end server with only 64MB of memory, sometimes you just have to look for alternate software packages with less bloat to leave more memory for your (often more bloated) applica...