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Old 21st January 2010
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Originally Posted by ai-danno View Post
I only mention this because I think the rest was sane. But for those truly serious threats that are actually looking to infiltrate via some means of surveillance or probing, putting services on non-standard ports does nothing. If you have SSH running on something other than 22... they're going to find it.

I would therefore recommend you leave it on 22.
Moving SSH to a different port may not offer any additional security, but it does reduce the number of log entries from random kiddies scanning/bruting etc on 22/tcp.
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