The firewall-piercing-HOWTO is not long but very educational for anyone who thinks firewalls are all that's needed to slow down hackers. Since I have no need to log into this machine from the outside, I edited /etc/ssh/sshd_config and commented out line 5 that starts out with Port and then saved my work. I also downloaded the lcap package nd after having edited sshd_config I also did a chattr +i /etc/ssh/sshd_config. That won't stop hackers but may add a few seconds delay for them.
