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+date = 2023-10-15
+title = "SSH Hardening for Alpine Linux"
+description = ""
+draft = false
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+
+# Overview
+
+This guide follows the standard
+[ssh-audit](https://www.ssh-audit.com/hardening_guides.html) hardening
+guide, tweaked for Alpine Linux.
+
+# Hardening Guide
+
+These steps must be performed as root. You can try to use
+`doas` or `sudo`, but there may be issues.
+
+1.  Re-generate the RSA and ED25519 keys
+
+```sh
+rm /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*
+ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key -N ""
+ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key -N ""
+```
+
+2.  Remove small Diffie-Hellman moduli
+
+```sh
+awk '$5 >= 3071' /etc/ssh/moduli > /etc/ssh/moduli.safe
+mv /etc/ssh/moduli.safe /etc/ssh/moduli
+```
+
+3.  Enable the RSA and ED25519 HostKey directives in the
+    /etc/ssh/sshd~config~ file
+
+```sh
+sed -i 's/^\#HostKey \/etc\/ssh\/ssh_host_\(rsa\|ed25519\)_key$/HostKey \/etc\/ssh\/ssh_host_\1_key/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
+```
+
+4.  Restrict supported key exchange, cipher, and MAC algorithms
+
+```sh
+echo -e "\n# Restrict key exchange, cipher, and MAC algorithms, as per sshaudit.com\n# hardening guide.\nKexAlgorithms [email protected],curve25519-sha256,[email protected],diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256\nCiphers [email protected],[email protected],[email protected],aes256-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes128-ctr\nMACs [email protected],[email protected],[email protected]\nHostKeyAlgorithms ssh-ed25519,[email protected],[email protected],[email protected],rsa-sha2-512,[email protected],rsa-sha2-256,[email protected]" > /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ssh-audit_hardening.conf
+```
+
+5.  Include the /etc/ssh/sshd~config~.d directory
+
+```sh
+echo -e "Include /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/*.conf" > /etc/ssh/sshd_config
+```
+
+6.  Restart OpenSSH server
+
+```sh
+rc-service sshd restart
+```
+
+# Testing SSH
+
+You can test the results with the `ssh-audit` python script.
+
+```sh
+pip3 install ssh-audit
+ssh-audit localhost
+```
+
+If everything succeeded, the results will show as all green. If anything
+is yellow, orange, or red, you may need to tweak additional settings.
+
+``` txt
+#+caption: ssh audit
+```
+
+![ssh-audit](https://img.cleberg.net/blog/20231015-ssh-hardening/ssh-audit.png)