[CentOS] Securing SSH wiki article outdated

[Always Learning]

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.


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Paul.
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