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Re: [opensuse] Results of moving ssh to a high port - Zero script kiddies in a 24 hour period.
  • From: "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:29:24 -0600
  • Message-id: <49343B14.10400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,


Less than 300 entries in the logs in _total_ for an entire 24 hour
period. If
you have similar issues, and your real user needs can be accommodated on a
high
port, I highly recommend it.


Last note on moving ssh to a higher port. For a seamless move, as was
suggested earlier, either add the Host and Port entries to the system wide
/etc/ssh/ssh_config or to your personal ~/.ssh/config to match hostnames to
ports and you eliminate the need to specify the new port on the command line
for each rsync, ssh, etc.. command. Example:

Host alchemy.3111skyline.com alchemy
Port 22
Host arete.3111skyline.com arete
Port 22
Host ecstasy.3111skyline.com ecstacy
Port 5271
Host bonza.rbpllc.com bonza
Port 5250

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