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Re: securing server



In article <[🔎] 20080507104737.GA28127@localdomain> you wrote:
>>    *  Change the ports of most ports like ssh, ftp, smtp, imap etc. from the
>>    default ones to some other ones.
> 
>>From my poor understanding of security related issues, I guess this is
> totally useless since any (good) port scanner will defeat this without
> any problem. Remember, security by obscurity is a bad idea.

It helps to keep the noise in the logs low.

Gruss
Bernd


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