On 4/18/05, Trever Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Travis Rousseau wrote: > > Why block access to port 22 when you can change it to something like 8724 > > Security by obscurity only works in the short term. This might stop a > few of the automated worms/script kiddies out there, but not all of > them. Something using nmap would find that in short order. > > Turn password auth off and use certificates only for starters. > > Then maybe look at using port knocking. > > With his problem it looked like security was not so important (The way I felt he described the problem) it looked more of an inconvenience to him.
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