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The (short) story of how the SSH port became 22. (www.ssh.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by starman to c/programming

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The SSH port is 22. This is the story of how it got that port number. And practical configuration instructions.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago

Anyway, I designed SSH to replace both telnet (port 23) and ftp (port 21). Port 22 was free. It was conveniently between the ports for telnet and ftp.