[vox-tech] Why change default ssh port?

[Stuart Turner]

Suggest the primary reason is to help obfuscate this port from routine 
or simple attempts to compromise a system via this port. Simple bots 
unleashed to find open SSH ports on 22 may be deterred and move along. 
However, someone performing a portscan can discover this.

~ Stuart


Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> Our hosting service has (without notice) changed our default ssh port from
> 22 to 22799.  This strikes me as an unusual decision, but I am still a
> novice at this sort of thing.  Why would a host make such a switch (I
> won't ask why they wouldn't announce it ahead of time; I'm used to that
> level of service from them).
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