Re: security advice wanted for home server

[Gerardo Castillo Alvarado <gecastillo@edelca.com.ve>]

Tom Allison escribió:
>> I would use another port than 22 for the SSH. If your machine's ports
>> are
>> being scanned and it appears port 22 is open, then you'll probably
>> have a
>> lot of brute-force attacks to SSH.
>> Personally, I redirected on my router a high port number (1234, for
>> example) to port number 22 of my home server. No more brute-force
>> attacks.
I think that in the worst case you can use port knocking instead of only
change port number.. it's an issue of easy use Versus security.. also
you can use public key and so forth