On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 15:25 +0100, michael wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 16:07 +0200, Tarapia Tapioco wrote: > > Occasionally people recommend running sshd on a different port number > > (not 22) to reduce the number of cracking attempts (dictionary > > attacks). > > > > Does this really make a big difference? > > Anyone have any statistics on it? > > when i tried this the number of attacks went from several daily to zero. > unfort several remote computers i use seem to expect me to ssh out using > port 22 :(
PS: I do not recommend chg-ing the SSH port as your only line of defence -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
