Running ssh on unreserved ports

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 19 February 2011 10:20:30 Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 16:07 -0500, Alex wrote:
> > I'd like to move it to a higher port to avoid the normal doorknob
> > rattling that occurs with ssh running on a public server.
> 
> Even with it on a different port, you'd probably want to implement some
> firewalling that auto-bans an IP after few failed attempts.  That stops
> them from continually trying to get through.
> 
> I think there was a package called fail2ban, or something similar, that
> did that automatically.

Fail2ban is easy to set up, and I've seen it stop attempts here.

Anne
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