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Synology DSM Guides & Tips

Allow SSH With RSA KEY

  • Log into Synology web UI as an administrator user
  • Enable “User Home”
  • Control Panel / User / Advanced, scroll down to “User Home”
  • Check “Enable user home service”, select an appropriate Location (i.e. volume1)
  • Click “Apply”

SSH into Synology as Admin User

sudo chmod 755 /volume1/homes/*youruser*
mkdir ~/.ssh && chmod 0700 ~/.ssh
touch ~/.ssh/authorized_keys && chmod 0644 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
echo PUCLICK_Key_STRING >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Configure the Synology’s SSH service to allow login by key

sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
  • Uncomment line that says: #PubkeyAuthentication yes
  • Uncomment the line that says: #AuthorizedKeyFiles .ssh/authorized_keys
  • Add a line: PasswordAuthentication no
  • Make sure that line is uncommented that says: ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
  • Save the file and exit the editor
sudo synoservicectl --restart sshd

You should now connect with rsa key.

Disable DSM Listening on 80,443 Ports

sed -i -e 's/80/81/' -e 's/443/444/' /usr/syno/share/nginx/server.mustache /usr/syno/share/nginx/DSM.mustache /usr/syno/share/nginx/WWWService.mustache

synoservicecfg --restart nginx

Installing VM Tools on Linux VM

On Debian:

sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt-get install qemu-guest-agent

On CentOS 7:

yum install -y qemu-guest-agent

On CentOS 8:

dnf install -y qemu-guest-agent
Last update: February 2, 2020

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