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Old 25-01-2008, 11:58
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Originally Posted by mephisto View Post
Ah that would make sense, as normal practise I change the port number ssh listens on on my servers. I find that if I don't I get bomb barded with brute force attacks. Even if they don't get in, it still uses some traffic and disk space (logged failure).
Thats true.

Allowing SSH access on port 22 can create problems in long run. We dont allow SSH on port 22 on any of our servers besides 3 of our servers which are reserved for customers who demand SSH access.
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