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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/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/9907720

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] 7 points 9 months ago

If this is something you run into often, it's likely still only for a limited number of servers? ssh and scp both respect .ssh/config, and I suspect (but haven't tested) that sftp does too. If you add something like this to that file:

Host host1 host2
  Port 8080

then SSH connections to hosts named in that first line will use port 8080 by default and you can leave off the -p/-P when contacting those hosts. You can add multiple such sections if you have other hosts that require different ports, of course.