SSH Configuration The ssh configuration file is stored at: /etc/ssh/sshd_config also you want to create a file: /etc/ssh/authorized_keys to store the public keys that want to connect to the server   /etc/ssh/sshd_config Add the following to the end of the sshd_config file to for the proper setup Port [Portnumber] PermitRootLogin no PubkeyAuthentication yes AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys /etc/ssh/authorized_keys AllowTcpForwarding yes AllowUsers [Names of the allowed users] PasswordAuthentication no LoginGraceTime 30 ClientAliveInterval 300 X11Forwarding no Portnumber:  Should be the portnumber you want to access your server on, it should not be 22 and should be above 1024 AllowUsers:  Name of the users you want to allow login with If you do not plan on acessing internal server ports over an ssh tunnel, such as cockpit you might want to remove the AllowTcpForwarding option   sudo sshd -t can be used to test out the configuration before reloading sudo systemctl reload sshd actually reloads the service and the configuration