can't run sshd on 23456 in Fedora 19

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 08 July 2013, Michael Cronenworth sent:
> Since there are only 65,535 ports to scan, anyone at any time can
> easily scan for an open port in seconds. Arguing about semantics of a
> port number is more Security Through Obscurity(tm).

I think there's some difference between picking something that makes you
an obvious target to dickheads on the internet, to just suffering the
random bad luck of being port scanned.

Though I certainly agree that simply changing the port number is a crap
idea about security.  I wouldn't go picking attractive numbers to
cretins, nor any of the commonly attacked ports because they're known to
be used by vulnerable services, or by waiting trojans.

e.g. I think it'd be asking for trouble to have something answer to the
port numbers used by peer-to-peer networking.  Give any sort of
response, and you're advertising yourself.

-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.8-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 27 19:19:57 UTC 2013 x86_64

All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.

George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.