Hacked - FreeBSD 7.1-Release

[Brian W.]

On 12/29/2009 3:45 AM, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> mpt to pass a Turing test or something.
>    
> On all systems which need to be accessible from the public Internet:
> Run sshd on port 22 and port 8022. Block incoming traffic on port
> 22 on your firewall.
>
> Everybody coming from the outside world needs to know it is running
> on port 8022. Everybody coming from the inside world has access as
> normal.
>
> Edwin
>    
I seem to recall on one of the openbsd lists someone speaking of risks 
of running sshd or other services on high numbered ports, presumably 
because a non root user cannot bind ports up to 1024.

Brian