Securing SSH access

[Hans Fugal]

Lonnie Olson wrote:

> I personally hate changing the port SSH listens on.  It adds great 
> complexity to day to day usage, and the benefit is small.  You either 
> have to specify the port number on every call to ssh, or add entries 
> into your ~/.ssh/config file for each host that you changed.  Really 
> annoying.

And on each host that you use. So if you deal with 10 hosts and ssh to 
them from 5 different clients frequently... now you have 50 entries in 
.ssh/config files to deal with.


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