Configure with one of your colleagues to login without the need of a password. Share the public key (~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) with your colleague and add it to their ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file: ssh-copy-id username@colleague_host
Confirm that your colleague can login without password.
Configure SSH to prevent root logins. sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config PermitRootLogin no sudo systemctl restart sshd