Friday, 22 May 2015

How-to: Using Google two factor authentication with ssh on your Linux box

How-to: Using Google two factor authentication with ssh on your Linux box

Two factor authentication is a great way to increase the security of your accounts. Google offers it for your Google accounts and now you can use it to secure your Linux box. How cool is that?

Note that while this tutorial is based around CentOS, it should be simple to apply to most Linux distributions with little modification.

For more info, here is a video on using two factor authentication with your Google account.
https://youtu.be/zMabEyrtPRg

I suggest installing the Google Authenticator app.

#Linux   #Security   #Google   #SSH  
https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/secure-ssh-with-google-authenticator-on-centos-7/