Hacked - FreeBSD 7.1-Release

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:10:42AM -0800, Brian W. wrote:
> 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.

More than happy to suggest 222 next time :-)

Edwin

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