Hardened SSH and fail2ban on Debian

45 min Debian 12 Versions 11, 12, 13

Objective

Make the SSH access of a Debian server exposed to the Internet resistant to password-guessing attacks: login by key only, root forbidden, a limited set of allowed accounts, and automatic banning of the addresses that keep trying, with fail2ban.

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