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Authored by: blueHal on Jun 10, '04 12:41:46PM

Use this hint if you must, but don't expect it will bring you any security. At all. It is perfectly easy for port scanners to find sshd running on a different port. This serves to make life more difficult for (a) you, (b) your network administrator who will look for insecure ssh daemons running on your network.



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Authored by: valkraider on Jun 11, '04 12:14:58AM

It in fact, does bring *some* security - as you have to actually scan the ports to find ssh, as opposed to just trying the *default* ssh port for every ssh client...

Is is a *lot* of security? No. Of course not. Read my original hint, I am not here to debate security through obscurity...

The MAIN reason that I need an alternate port is that some people I am setting up tunnels for are stuck places that block port 22. Also in the original hint...



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