On Fri, 2015-02-13 at 10:03 -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Fri, February 13, 2015 9:05 am, Always Learning wrote:
I always change the SSH port to something conspicuously different. Every server has a different and difficult to guess SSH port number with access restricted to a few IP addresses.
Just to mention (even though someone already mentioned that): changing port numbers, or, say removing disclosure by the daemon what software, version, ... it is does not really add security. Security through obscurity is only considered to be efficient by Windows folks. Quite wrongfully IMHO.
Changing the SSH port is the *START* of extra security (no Port 22 here) - not the end of my efforts. SSH ports are 'protected' by restricting access from and to designated IPs.