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		kps on Sept 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity Someone attacking ssh may also attack other services (e.g. http) that may have vulnerabilities. fail2ban on port 22 keeps them away.

Karunamon on Sept 21, 2020 [–]

I was going to say.. fail2ban or sshguard serve a purpose in ensuring that ssh skiddies don’t get to talk to anything else on the machine either.

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