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Author SHA1 Message Date
d51f8fefaa roles/common: minor configuration of Debian 13 SSH
Tweak some of the new OpenSSH per-source penalty settings on Debian
13. For now only adjusting the source network masks and reusing the
list of IPs to exempt from fail2ban.

These being built in makes them easier to use, but I think I will
end up sticking with fail2ban for the heavy lifting because it per-
sists across restarts of the daemon, whereas OpenSSH's doesn't. I
will monitor OpenSSH on Debian 13 to see how to best use it along
side fail2ban.
2025-09-23 10:33:24 +03:00
9ff6e19135 roles/common: use 127.0.0.0/8 for fail2ban ignoreip
We can re-use our fail2ban ignoreip setting for Debian 13's OpenSSH
PerSourcePenaltyExemptList, but OpenSSH is more strict with regards
to masks not being applied to the host portion. I had never noticed
that fail2ban's default was applying the mask on the host portion!
2025-09-23 10:33:23 +03:00
4680999680 roles/common: sshd overrides for Debian 13 2025-09-23 10:33:23 +03:00
3 changed files with 55 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ fail2ban_maxretry: 6
fail2ban_findtime: 3600 fail2ban_findtime: 3600
# 2 weeks in seconds # 2 weeks in seconds
fail2ban_bantime: 1209600 fail2ban_bantime: 1209600
fail2ban_ignoreip: 127.0.0.1/8 fail2ban_ignoreip: 127.0.0.0/8
# Disable SSH passwords. Must use SSH keys. This is OK because we add the keys # Disable SSH passwords. Must use SSH keys. This is OK because we add the keys
# before re-configuring the SSH daemon to disable passwords. # before re-configuring the SSH daemon to disable passwords.

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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
--- ---
# SSH configs don't change in Debian minor versions # Only override the system sshd configuration on older Debian.
- name: Reconfigure /etc/ssh/sshd_config - name: Reconfigure /etc/ssh/sshd_config
when: ansible_distribution_version is version('12', '<=')
ansible.builtin.template: ansible.builtin.template:
src: "sshd_config_{{ ansible_distribution }}-{{ ansible_distribution_major_version }}.j2" src: "sshd_config_{{ ansible_distribution }}-{{ ansible_distribution_major_version }}.j2"
dest: /etc/ssh/sshd_config dest: /etc/ssh/sshd_config
@@ -9,6 +10,18 @@
mode: "0600" mode: "0600"
notify: Reload sshd notify: Reload sshd
# Newer OpenSSH versions support including extra configuration. The includes
# happen at the beginning of the file and the first value to be read is used.
- name: Configure sshd_config.d overrides
when: ansible_distribution_version is version('13', '>=')
ansible.builtin.template:
src: etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/01-{{ ansible_distribution }}-{{ ansible_distribution_major_version }}.conf.j2
dest: /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/01-custom.conf
owner: root
group: root
mode: "0600"
notify: Reload sshd
# See: WeakDH (2015): https://weakdh.org/sysadmin.html # See: WeakDH (2015): https://weakdh.org/sysadmin.html
- name: Remove small Diffie-Hellman SSH moduli - name: Remove small Diffie-Hellman SSH moduli
block: block:

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@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
{{ ansible_managed | comment }}
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key
# LogLevel VERBOSE logs user's key fingerprint on login. Needed to have a clear
# audit track of which key was using to log in.
LogLevel VERBOSE
MaxAuthTries 4
AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys
# To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!
{% if ssh_password_authentication == 'disabled' %}
PasswordAuthentication no
{% else %}
PasswordAuthentication yes
{% endif %}
X11Forwarding no
# Based on the ssh-audit profile for Debian 13, but with but with all algos with
# less than 256 bits removed, as NSA's Suite B removed them years ago and the
# new (2018) CNSA suite is 256 bits and up.
#
# See: ssh-audit.py -P "Hardened Debian 13 (version 1)"
# See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_National_Security_Algorithm_Suite
Ciphers chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-ctr
MACs hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com
KexAlgorithms mlkem768x25519-sha256,sntrup761x25519-sha512,sntrup761x25519-sha512@openssh.com
{% if ssh_allowed_users is defined and ssh_allowed_users %}
AllowUsers {{ ssh_allowed_users|join(" ") }} {{ provisioning_user.name }}
{% endif %}
PerSourcePenaltyExemptList {{ fail2ban_ignoreip | replace(" ", ",") }}
# Mask to use for IPv4 and IPv6 respectively when applying network penalties.
# The default is 32:128.
PerSourceNetBlockSize 24:56