[Box-Admins] Change ssh port?

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Thu Feb 20 17:17:08 UTC 2014


On 20 February 2014 17:12, Ken Causey <ken at 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


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