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Date:      Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:27:53 -0800
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Dave Carrera <dave@ephgroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Onpening and Closing ports
Message-ID:  <1B0CF7A0-1448-4CF6-8DCB-9D5AFF09FDE6@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <45CEC7A4.7030802@ephgroup.com>
References:  <45CEC7A4.7030802@ephgroup.com>

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On Feb 10, 2007, at 11:37 PM, Dave Carrera wrote:
> Had a little nasty person trying to break my sshd on port 22.
>
> I need to change and open a new port for sshd but i do not know how.
>
> Can one of you kind people help me with this please

If you use good passwords, the SSH dictionary attacks are not a great  
concern.  However, you can pass sshd the "-p 2222" flag to change the  
port from the default of 22 to (for example) 2222.  To make this  
change permanent, add:

    sshd_flags="-p 2222"

...to /etc/rc.conf.

-- 
-Chuck




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