[PLUG] No ssh cracking attempts?

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue Dec 23 17:37:47 UTC 2014


On Tue, 23 Dec 2014, Jim Garrison wrote:

> It's a simple one-line change in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
>    Port 21499
> instead of "Port 22" and then restart sshd.

Jim,

   Thought so. Done.

> On the Linux/Cygwin client side it's a command-line parameter or an
> entry in ~/.ssh/config, as in
>
>    host thor
>    hostname ip.add.re.ss
>    port 21499
>    user fred
>    identityfile ~/.ssh/fred.dsa
>
> Other devices usually have a way to store the desired port.

   Had not thought of this, but it's equally simple.

Many thanks and happy holidays,

Rich



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