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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] 5 points 9 months ago

Actually, I have my public facing servers configured to listen to 443 as well. Why? Because many corporate and public space wifi spots like libraries, will block 22, but allow 443 for https, so on my shell servers, I also listen to 443.