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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:27:53 -0800
To: Dave Carrera <dave@ephgroup.com>
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Subject: Re: Onpening and Closing ports
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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