On Thursday 09 September 2004 00:15, Tom Klem wrote: > It is a very interesting problem. > > I know that anything is possible, and I suppose that any port > scanner will find port 22 open at any given time. Have you > considered using another port? At least with that, they get a > port open, for which they do not have a cookbook recipe, or > hacker kiddie script. They are not sure what the purpose of the > 'mysterious' port is, etcetera. > > Just a thought. > > Tom > In the case of an off-the-shelf sshd running on an unknown port it's trivial to discover with a simple carriage return: 07:48:51 # telnet <ip-address> 22 Trying <ip-address>... Connected to (<ip-address>). Escape character is '^]'. SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.5p1 Protocol mismatch. Connection closed by foreign host. Regards, Mike Klinke -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
