1 Feb
2010
1 Feb
'10
10:45 a.m.
Hi Cynthia Wahome wrote:
These should not bother you if you know that you have secured your sshd service. The other thing you could do is to change the default sshd port from 22 to something else known only to people who need it.
Most common practice is to put the port to higher numbers i.e > 1024. The reason being that most port scans are limited within the normal port range i.e 0 - 1024. Once you have this in place, and yes its always safe to disable root access via SSH, you reduce your brute-force attacks. Regards, Michuki.