Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I've setup a small LAN of two desktops running CentOS 5 in a medical > office. Both are connected to the Internet via a small modem/router. > > Recently I played around with FreeNX on my own desktop, and I'd like to > install it on these two computers. On my PC, I just redirected port 22 > in the router, so SSH (and thus FreeNX) requests from the outside get > redirected to my desktop PC. (And yes, I have a strong password :oD) > > I'd like to handle the two PCs from the medical office remotely with > FreeNX. I figured that the best way to distinguish them would be to > assign a different port for SSH to each of them, and then redirect each > of the ports respectively. > > 1) How do I choose different port numbers for SSH ? Any conventions or > caveats for this ? > Choose a random unused high port number (above 1023) http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers. > 2) How do I configure these different ports ? By that, I mean : how do I > tell SSH to use them instead of port 22 ? > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH#head-3579222198adaf43a3ecbdc438ebce74da40d8ec