> Granted, if somebody is not specifically targeting you and is just scanning
> ranges to find sshd on 22 they will pass you right up since that port will
> be closed.
The port change was intended only to avoid the port scanners.
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> Personally I tend to either firewall the OpenSSH daemon, or leave it
> wide open. I don't really see the point in changing ports, as long as
> they are still publicly available.
The ssh bots only seem to probe port 22. In well over a year of
running my ssh servers on a different (very low n