I disagree, you can always go straight to one of the industry recognized hardening benchmarks then. The ssh hardening guidance in the posted article and any num

I disagree, you can always go straight to one of the industry recognized hardening benchmarks then. The ssh hardening guidance in the posted article and any number of hardening guidelines are all pretty similar. The defaults keep the mailing lists from filling up with troubleshooting questions, but anyone with some command line skills can change one parameter at a time and test. If you’re exposing ssh to the internet you should absolutely not be ignoring hardening guides.