Re: Re: Re: open telnet port

[Andrew Haninger <ahaning () gmail com>]

> How about, as a service to enable as you are updating SSH remotely from
> the other side of the country to fix the most recent problem security
> problem and need a backup system to get into the server in the event
> that something goes wrong?
Maybe it would work as well, to start a ssh daemon on a high port,
login on that high port, update the current sshd, start it up on port
22, logout of the high port, login on port 22, and kill the high-port
sshd.

So,

[foo () box com ~] sshd -p 6000
[bar () xob com ~] ssh foo () box com -p 6000
[foo () box com ~] [kill sshd running on port 22]
[foo () box com ~] [make and install new sshd]
[foo () box com ~] sshd
[bar () xob com ~] ssh foo () box com
[kill sshd running on port 6000]

This would nearly eliminate any danger due to your insecure version of
sshd since it would be running on a non-standard port for a brief
period of time, and you would not be passing any passwords in the
clear.

-Andy

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