* Daniel Hulme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-19 14:10]: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:24:07PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > > F.ex., it would be dumb to run sshd on a port other than 22, > > hoping that no one finds it. > > Not really. I run sshd on my home box on a non-default port, > because I was fed up of worms running their dictionaries of > uname/password combos against it, eating my bandwidth and > driving my loadavg up the wall. I keep the box up to date, and > my password is non-trivial, so it's not my only defence, but it > makes life easier for me.
Funny, cause you snipped the part of my mail that said exactly that: > > But if you keep track of security advisories, then running > > sshd on an unusual port may make the difference between > > someone finding your sshd before or after you had a chance to > > install the latest patch, thus making the difference between > > your getting cracked or not. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
