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Re:Why Putting SSH On Another Port is a Good Idea by GalacticDomin8r on Saturday October 26, 2013 @01:09AM (#6616433)
> The ability for someone to "spin up a daemon on your server" would also be called an unprivileged exploit.

No, that is very, very wrong. This is SOP for an account on a system

nc -l 9000 <- spinning up a daemon on your server

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Re:Why Putting SSH On Another Port is a Good Idea by derefr on Saturday October 26, 2013 @12:09PM (#6617857)
Rather, the ability for someone who isn't considered to have an account on your server, to spin up a daemon on your server.
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