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For people like me who create a new server and put our public SSH keys in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, can you explain what doing this does, and why it's good? I ca

by pbowyer 10y ago

For people like me who create a new server and put our public SSH keys in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, can you explain what doing this does, and why it's good? I can see you're limiting it to particular algorithms/cyphers, but the rest?

tw04 10y ago
The stuff towards the top eliminates the insecure keys your server will try to default to. No reason to keep them on the server (IMO) - they're primarily there for backwards compatibility. I prefer to remove them entirely so I know my client/server won't ever negotiate an insecure connection.