On Fri Jan24'25 04:54:36PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > From: Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 16:54:36 +0000 > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: OT: How to select a new port number for ssh > > On Fri, 2025-01-24 at 11:40 -0500, Lester Petrie wrote: > > I have a NAS I wish to change the ssh port from 22 to something else. > > How do I go about selecting a good port number? > > Look at the standard ports in /etc/services and choose something > different. Depending on access control to the NAS, you might want to > choose something below 1023. > > poc I have not done this for a while, but I have my port set to a nonstandard number. Btw, I was always given to believe that moving it from 22 was the right thing to do because that was the most obvious port to attack. Anyway, in the past, I had to do this (per some helpful instructions from this mailing list) sort of from long ago when firewalld was introduced in Fedora. I last did this about a year (or two) ago, and it worked then.
