Re: sshd port config and security
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 02:19:31AM +0100, japc@co.sapo.pt wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:52:29PM -0500, Vinh Truong wrote:
> > * Jean-Marc Boursot <jmb@ankeo.org> [010406 21:09]:
> > > They allow telnet and not ssh? Nice!
> >
> > yeah, afraid of the port-forwarding capabilities in ssh. i can see
> > their point but i'm just as leery of clear-text transmission. oh, well.
> >
>
> Port forwarding works in ssh no matter what door you run it on. For instance:
>
> ssh -p 666
People that know how to run ssh through a non-standard port are probably
less likely to set up anything stupid with port forwarding than the average
semi-clued user who only barely knows how to use ssh. Don't know if that
has anything to do with the decision...
--
#define X(x,y) x##y
Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X(peter@llama.nslug. , ns.ca)
"The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours!
Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack
my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
Reply to: