How do I set up a global virtual machine instance on google cloud

Question

How can I set up a global VM so anyone that has username@IP and password to be able to login, i.e (ssh user@IP password)?

Answer 1

Log into the VM using gcloud compute ssh VM_NAME or web ssh.

Then edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and change PasswordAuthentication no to PasswordAuthentication yes and restart sshd service: systemctl restart sshd

After that, you can add user and grant password adduser testuser

Then you can use username and password to log into the VM: ssh testuser@PUBLIB_IP_OF_VM

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