[Box-Admins] Change ssh port?

[Ken Causey]

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.

Now I'm not saying this is any serious problem.  And I don't get these 
sorts of log reports on the Squeak servers currently, so this is not 
addressing any noise I'm dealing with.  But I'm sure all of the Squeak 
servers are being hit with connection attempts constantly, probably more 
than the other server I deal with since it is in no way public.  At some 
point there is a tiny possibility that one of the connection attempts 
will properly guess both a username and a password (and shame on that 
person for using such a simple password if it happens :) ), sort of the 
million monkey theory.

Anyway this is something I've considered but of course it would affect 
everyone who sshs to the servers and so I can't just make such a change 
unilaterally.

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.

Ken