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Usermaxn
Asked: 2023-06-08 04:57:18 +0800 CST

how to properly mask ssh server background service

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I want to mask ssh so the ssh server is disabled till I need it myself. but still want to have ssh client capabilities.

I use openssh and the service is ssh.service and its alias sshd.service

I use ubuntu 22.04

is the correct steps:

systemctl stop sshd
systemctl disable sshd
systemctl mask sshd
systemctl mask ssh
ssh

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Yes, and remember to use sudo:

    sudo systemctl stop sshd
sudo systemctl disable sshd
sudo systemctl mask sshd

    You don't need the 4th line, since ssh and sshd are aliases.

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