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Re:Self hosting in 2023 and why you should do that by imgabe on Sunday February 19, 2023 @06:43PM (#34863098)
You can move ssh to a different port.
Re:Self hosting in 2023 and why you should do that by indigodaddy on Sunday February 19, 2023 @07:57PM (#34863678)
Anyone who thinks they need to move ssh to a different port likely doesn’t have their ssh security configuration setup optimally.
Re:Self hosting in 2023 and why you should do that by gnramires on Sunday February 19, 2023 @08:11PM (#34863776)
Making it explicit: try to always use keys for ssh, avoid passwords. If you have to use passwords, make it very long (20+ chars) and random. Don't use dictionary words or reuse passwords from anywhere else.
Re:Self hosting in 2023 and why you should do that by indigodaddy on Sunday February 19, 2023 @08:30PM (#34863912)
Yep, and I always additionally just disable pw authentication altogether, and set PermitRootLogin to either No or without-password.

You can also do things like firewalld off (or with hosts.allow) 22 to just an ssh bastion/jumphost src (or your house IP), but I find that’s usually not necessary (although an excellent further step if you are a bit paranoid) as long you do what was mentioned in first paragraph.

Re:Self hosting in 2023 and why you should do that by komali2 on Sunday February 19, 2023 @11:23PM (#34864872)
I don't get it, wouldn't you use ssh keys and also just move it to a different port anyway to save the annoyance of random scriptkiddy pokes all the time?
Re:Self hosting in 2023 and why you should do that by piaste on Monday February 20, 2023 @06:21AM (#34867115)
Moving the port away from 22 changed my fail2ban logs from hundreds of lines a day to one every few weeks at most.

While you shouldn't skip on other security measures, there's no real downside to changing your SSH port and getting off the target list for a lot of botnets.

(As opposed to e.g. port knocking, which is stronger but makes it easy to lock yourself out and may create issues with some SSH clients.)

Re:Self hosting in 2023 and why you should do that by cube00 on Monday February 20, 2023 @07:15AM (#34867396)
There's other reasons to use a different port. I move it to cut down on the failed login attempts (yes they'll never succeed given I only allow keys) but they clutter the log so I can't tell if I'm actually being targeted or not. On an obscure port if I do see attempts I know something serious is going on.