setting up global gcp vm

Question

I need help setting up VM using GCP, this is my first VM on GCP

How can I set it up so anyone that has username@IP and password to be able to login

ie (ssh user@IP password)

Answer 1

First, log into the VM using gcloud compute ssh VM_NAME or web ssh(by clicking ssh on the GCP console.

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