[Dev] [FYI] port 22 on servers going away

Luke Shumaker lukeshu at lukeshu.com
Thu Dec 21 05:40:40 GMT 2017


On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 12:46:51 -0500,
Joseph Graham wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 11:53:56AM -0500, Luke Shumaker wrote:
> > For security and administration reasons, the Parabola servers have
> > pretty much always had SSH on port 1863.
> 
> Fake security. Pointless and annoying.

It's not really security.  It's administration.  On port 22, there are
so many bogus requests, that looking at the SSH logs is pointless,
there's too much noise.  On a weird port, you can look at the logs,
and have it be useful.  And having admins that look at the logs is
better security.

-- 
Happy hacking,
~ Luke Shumaker



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