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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