Breakin attempt
Michael Sierchio
kudzu at tenebras.com
Sat Oct 22 16:56:17 UTC 2011
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> Is there _any_ reason why moving from port 22 to something
> different is _not_ a solution?
>
> Reason why I'm asking: Moving SSH away from its default port
> seems to be a relatively good solution as break-in attempts
> concentrate on default ports. So in case a sysadmin decides
> to move SSH to a "hidden" location, what could be an argument
> against this decision?
Moving SSH to another port doesn't add appreciably to security, but it
reduces the noise in the logs. ;-)
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