* Security ** Switch APT to HTTPS ~sudo sed -i 's/http:/https:/' /etc/apt/sources.list~ Granted, the repository signature provides enough protection; still, no sense in wasting bandwidth and CPU if someone is meddling. ** Tweak root access On OVH's Debian image: - The =root= account has no password. - =PermitRootLogin= defaults to =prohibit-password=: set it to =no=. ** Enable fail2ban ~lastb~ says there's about 4000 login attempts per day; that makes =/var/log/btmp= much bigger than it needs to be. Debian's fail2ban comes with a jail for ~sshd~, so it's just a matter of ~apt install fail2ban~.