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2014 Oct 03
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CentOS-docs Digest, Vol 95, Issue 2
...hange ports (Theodor Sigurjon Andresson)
> 6. Re: Securing SSH --> Change ports (Manuel Wolfshant)
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> From: Theodor Sigurjon Andresson <TheodorSiAn at kvenno.is>
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> Subject: [CentOS-docs] Securing SSH --> Change ports
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2014 Oct 02
3
Securing SSH --> Change ports
In there you are almost telling people that security through obscurity is a good way.
That might sometimes be true but in this case it could mean that you would be handing passwords and other data out.
When you start SSH on port 22 it is done with root privileges because the root user is the only one that can use ports below 1024. Root is the only user that can listen to that port or do