Steve Crawford wrote:
>
> I have changed the external ssh port on all machines I administer. The
> result is the complete elimination of the previous hundreds to thousands
> of daily script-kiddie brute-force attempts I used to see.
>
>
>
+1
We have not used port 22 in our production network for years; for all
the same reasons. Although its only obfuscation, it works.
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Andrew Chernow
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