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ohlol on Aug 6, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Set Up Your Server Right, Part 1

I've never been a fan of changing SSH's port.

If you're going to firewall SSH, changing the port is redundant.. The only reason to change the port is to prevent brute force attacks, and the firewall will do that for you.

LogicHoleFlaw on Aug 6, 2009 | [–]

Still.... it really cleans the logs up. It's not safer, but the logs do become easier to read in a pinch.

ohlol on Aug 6, 2009 | | [–]

Huh? The firewall logs? Got grep -v?

weaksauce on Aug 6, 2009 | [–]

The thing is that a lot of the simple scripts only bang on 22. Moving the port means that a lot of scripts will move on to another server.

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