Making your SSHd more secure in 5 steps

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A nice (Gentoo-oriented) howto for securing your SSH daemon in 5 steps.\r\nThese include:\r\n- Disabling root login;\r\n- Changing ssh-port;\r\n- Setting up usage of rsa-key authentication;\r\n- Allowing only passworded keys;\r\n- Running the DenyHosts python-script;