Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge -- InformationWeek

[Ben Scott]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
>> ... run a sentry on 22, so that anyone trying to connect
>> to 22 is automatically blacklisted.
>
> That may be overly brutal.

  Certainly, one size does not fit all.  One should do what is
appropriate.  That said...

> I routinely log into a server with a non-standard port, and every
> once in a while I forget to use '-p xxxx'.

  In my $HOME/.ssh/config file:

Host lib
Hostname liberty.gnhlug.org
Port 1776

  Then I just type "ssh lib" and I'm in on the right port.

-- Ben