On 20 February 2014 17:12, Ken Causey ken@kencausey.com wrote:
What does the group think of changing the port that sshd listens on for connections? Yes, I know this is a sort of security by obscurity and is entirely pointless if you are being targeted. But we aren't being targeted yet the net is just full of drive-by connection attempts these days.
On a server I administer for a customer I used to get log reports of hundreds and even thousands of the attempted ssh connections each and every day. I got tired of the noise and moved sshd to another port. It has been years now and there has not been a single ssh connection attempt from anyone other than me since I made the change.
+1, and for the same reason. It's not security by obscurity, because our security doesn't depend on the port. It's operational sanity :)
If you are in favor of this change suggest a number that might be relevant to Squeakers and easy to remember, preferably <= 1024, if you can think of one.
I suggest 2044, for no better reason than that's where I last moved my sshd to :).
frank