Re: [CentOS] Running SSH on a different port

ML wrote:

HI All,

With my new firewall in place, it has opened my eyes to how much traffic gets blocked in a single day and also what are the most active rules. I get *a lot* of requests for port 22.

How does one switch ssh ports? What is a good port to use? What ramifications does it have when I need to ssh in? Is it as simple as ssh user@hots:port?

Perhaps the first thing I do on a new server is:

vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

And uncomment the port line, change the port number to my favorite port number, save the file, then restart sshd.

I much perfer this method to setting up port limiting runs in iptables and ip6tables.