Re: server security

[Jerome Athias <athiasjerome () gmail com>]

port knocking is better

Le 21/06/2012 18:34 VALR, Mike Hale a écrit :
> "Putting it on some other port reduces your risk"
> It doesn't really reduce your risk, since you're still as vulnerable
> as you were before.
>
> What it does is reduce your log entries.  That can be worth the added
> administrative cost of changing standard ports, but it's not really a
> 'security' measure.
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Alex Dolan <dolan.alex () gmail com> wrote:
> > One tip I have is to set SSH to a port other than 22, I don't need to
> > tell anyone how devastating it is if someone did actually get access
> > to that service. Putting it on some other port reduces your risk


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