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| author | Christian Cleberg <[email protected]> | 2024-03-29 01:30:23 -0500 |
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| committer | Christian Cleberg <[email protected]> | 2024-03-29 01:30:23 -0500 |
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diff --git a/content/blog/2023-10-15-alpine-ssh-hardening.org b/content/blog/2023-10-15-alpine-ssh-hardening.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4e7fcc5 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2023-10-15-alpine-ssh-hardening.org @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +#+title: SSH Hardening for Alpine Linux +#+date: 2023-10-15 +#+description: A quick guide to harden SSH configuration on Alpine. +#+filetags: :linux: + +* Overview +This guide follows the standard +[[https://www.ssh-audit.com/hardening_guides.html][ssh-audit]] 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 + +#+begin_src 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 "" +#+end_src + +2. [@2] Remove small Diffie-Hellman moduli + +#+begin_src sh +awk '$5 >= 3071' /etc/ssh/moduli > /etc/ssh/moduli.safe +mv /etc/ssh/moduli.safe /etc/ssh/moduli +#+end_src + +3. [@3] Enable the RSA and ED25519 HostKey directives in the + /etc/ssh/sshd_{config} file + +#+begin_src sh +sed -i 's/^\#HostKey \/etc\/ssh\/ssh_host_\(rsa\|ed25519\)_key$/HostKey \/etc\/ssh\/ssh_host_\1_key/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config +#+end_src + +4. [@4] Restrict supported key exchange, cipher, and MAC algorithms + +#+begin_src 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 +#+end_src + +5. [@5] Include the /etc/ssh/sshd_{config}.d directory + +#+begin_src sh +echo -e "Include /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/*.conf" > /etc/ssh/sshd_config +#+end_src + +6. [@6] Restart OpenSSH server + +#+begin_src sh +rc-service sshd restart +#+end_src + +* Testing SSH +You can test the results with the =ssh-audit= python script. + +#+begin_src sh +pip3 install ssh-audit +ssh-audit localhost +#+end_src + +If everything succeeded, the results will show as all green. If anything +is yellow, orange, or red, you may need to tweak additional settings. + +#+begin_src txt +,#+caption: ssh audit +#+end_src + +#+caption: ssh-audit +[[https://img.cleberg.net/blog/20231015-ssh-hardening/ssh-audit.png]] |
