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by blameless 4665 days ago
I also always change the SSH port to 9922. I haven't seen any failed login attempts so far.
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I would use a privileged port for ssh (different than 22). In case a hacker owns the process he would need sudo to open another connection if the port is <1024.
I wonder if it's ever happened that a hacker was able to pwn sshd only to be stopped by the lack of a local privilege escalation to root.