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by getsat 4031 days ago
It's not people, though. It's bots! While changing the ssh port adds a comically small amount of security (if any), it isolates you from 99.99% of automated attacks and keeps those logs clean, so I'd recommend it for everyone.

Just remember that the port argument to `scp` is -P and not -p like it is for `ssh`. :p

2 comments

Yeah, I whitelist IPs, and just drop all other packets, so I'm not really worried, but thanks for the advice, it's always good to get other peoples opinions on best practices.
I think you can just use ssh/config to store ports even for scp; it's much nicer than remembering that stuff.