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Date:      Sun, 22 May 2005 05:14:30 -0600
From:      Ed Stover <estover@nativenerds.com>
To:        Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: illegal user root user failed login attempts
Message-ID:  <42906996.1090905@nativenerds.com>
In-Reply-To: <428C91D6.8030203@dial.pipex.com>
References:  <C993D184-EDA6-446B-96CC-59B9AFE34AC2@mac.com>	<200505181556.44648.kirk@strauser.com> <200505182311.25158@harrymail>	<428C5E35.50101@nativenerds.com> <428C91D6.8030203@dial.pipex.com>

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Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> Ed Stover wrote:
> 
>> One of my personal favorite things to do is:
>> move ssh to port 1001
>>  
>>
> Is there a reason behind choosing port 1001?  <1024; not registered to
> anything else useful; reasonably memorable?
Well as long as you dont have a service allready running on what ever
the port number is. Sure choose a number that you feel is a nice one.

>  Are there any other useful
> criteria I've missed?
> 
Not that I can think of. Let me know if you need any thing else.
> Thanks,
> 
> --Alex




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