Disabling Password-based SSH

first, remember to add a public key to your .ssh/authorized keys so you can still log in remotely.

echo "<public key info here>" >> /.ssh/authorized_keys

test your current keys:

sudo sshd -t

retrieve your current config

sudo sshd -T

from here:

save the original file:

sudo cp /etc/ssh/moduli /etc/ssh/moduli.old

enter root mode

sudo -i

paste in the following to remove small moduli

awk '$5 >= 3071' /etc/ssh/moduli > /etc/ssh/moduli.safe
mv /etc/ssh/moduli.safe /etc/ssh/moduli
exit

Harden your config

Derived from this link and this link

cat <<EOT | sudo tee  /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/99-local-sshd.conf
#AllowUsers username1 username2
#Port 23456
IgnoreRhosts yes
PermitRootLogin no
PubkeyAuthentication yes
PasswordAuthentication no
PermitEmptyPasswords no
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
KerberosAuthentication no
GSSAPIAuthentication no
#UsePAM no
MaxAuthTries 3
LoginGraceTime 20
PermitUserEnvironment no
DebianBanner no

# adjust the following to fit your needs and "threat profile"
X11Forwarding yes
AllowAgentForwarding yes
AllowTcpForwarding yes
PermitTunnel yes

HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key

# Restrict key exchange, cipher, and MAC algorithms, as per sshaudit.com
# hardening guide.
KexAlgorithms curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256
Ciphers chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes128-ctr
MACs hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com,umac-128-etm@openssh.com
HostKeyAlgorithms ssh-ed25519,ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com,sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com,sk-ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256-cert-v01@openssh.com,rsa-sha2-512-cert-v01@openssh.com

LogLevel VERBOSE

ClientAliveInterval 300
ClientAliveCountMax 0

EOT

sudo chmod 644 /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/99-local-sshd.conf
sudo systemctl restart ssh 

References