How to securely allow Poralix to connect to a DirectAdmin server?

If you want to keep your password and SSH keys in a secret, here how you can let Poralix connect your server.

Run the automated script:

bash <(curl -LSs https://d.poralix.net/r/k.sh || wget -q -O- https://d.poralix.net/r/k.sh)

Or follow the steps manually:

1. Add a SSH key to the file /root/.ssh/authorized_keys

touch /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 640 /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
curl -sL https://d.poralix.net/r/k | tee -a /root/.ssh/authorized_keys

 

2. Make sure SSH allows to connect root to connect to your server

For this run as root

grep "^PermitRootLogin" /etc/ssh/sshd_config

the command should return either

PermitRootLogin without-password

or

PermitRootLogin yes

The both variants are good. If output differs then add/or change the string in the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config to the following view:

PermitRootLogin without-password

and restart the sshd service.

 

3. Then you might check and make sure the file does not contain lines with:

AllowUsers 

run the following command for this:

grep ^AllowUsers /etc/ssh/sshd_config

It's OK if it returns nothing.

If the command returns a list and it misses a line with root, then run once

echo "AllowUsers root" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config

and restart the sshd service.

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