On 2022-03-21 20:37, Gunter Königsmann wrote:
If you rent a homepage at any hosting service you will get a ssh access on port 22. If you create a project on sourceforge you'll get a ssh access on port 22, too... ...and hiding it on any other port would be security by obscurity, which doesn't help too much.
It's been my experience that simply changing it to a non-standard port reduced the brute force attacks by an order of 10 at least. (Port 222 isn't a very good choice.)
It's not so much obscurity as moving it off the most common BF script target.
-- Jonathan