Re: FC16 - moving sshd to another port

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/08/2011 08:19 PM, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 09:26 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> I have always run SSHD on a different port as part of my obfusication. >> Yeah, I know it will not stop good portscanners, but it stops all that >> stupid doorknocking on port 22... > A genuine questi

Re: FC16 - moving sshd to another port

2011-12-08 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 09:26 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I have always run SSHD on a different port as part of my obfusication. > Yeah, I know it will not stop good portscanners, but it stops all that > stupid doorknocking on port 22... A genuine question: Does it really matter? -- [tim@loc

Re: FC16 - moving sshd to another port

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/08/2011 02:46 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/08/2011 02:39 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> On 12/08/2011 02:12 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: On 12/08/2011 12:14 >> PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:26:31 -0500, RM (Rob

Re: FC16 - moving sshd to another port

2011-12-08 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/08/2011 02:39 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 12/08/2011 02:12 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: On 12/08/2011 12:14 > PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:26:31 -0500, RM (Robert) wrote: > I have always run SSHD on a differ

Re: FC16 - moving sshd to another port

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/08/2011 02:12 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/08/2011 12:14 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:26:31 -0500, RM (Robert) wrote: >> >>> I have always run SSHD on a different port as part of my >>> obfusication. Yeah, I kno

Re: FC16 - moving sshd to another port

2011-12-08 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/08/2011 12:14 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:26:31 -0500, RM (Robert) wrote: > >> I have always run SSHD on a different port as part of my >> obfusication. Yeah, I know it will not stop good portscanners, >> but it stops al

Re: FC16 - moving sshd to another port

2011-12-08 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:26:31 -0500, RM (Robert) wrote: > I have always run SSHD on a different port as part of my obfusication. > Yeah, I know it will not stop good portscanners, but it stops all that > stupid doorknocking on port 22... > > So I changed sshd_config to use port 557 (not really,

FC16 - moving sshd to another port

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have always run SSHD on a different port as part of my obfusication. Yeah, I know it will not stop good portscanners, but it stops all that stupid doorknocking on port 22... So I changed sshd_config to use port 557 (not really, but I'm not telling here) and enabled root login (yeah I know I