Quote Originally Posted by sonatine View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post

The latter won't work for various reasons, including the fact that I go to secret locations and will want access.

I'm not so bothered about having it on 22 as long as I shut out repeated attempts from the same IP like above. There have not been any distributed hack attempts so I'm not worried.

I hadnt considered the secret locations factor, touche.

And yeah if youre locking out tumblers, thats another huge plus.

But the trend right now is distributed cracking through botnets, which we always see after a huge password database leak. A few thousand hosts hammering port 22 is going to result in other processes stacking up in the queue and generally shite performance.

Food for thought.

Migrating off port 22 is a fairly standard play right now.
A whole different issue comes into play if you are on cable internet since a lot of time cable internet providers have dynamic ips.

If he doesn't have a static ip, it introduces another fun element.

Seems like what you said about at least a basic migration to a different port makes since.

Druff in WHM it is something like /etc/ssh/ssh_config or sshconfig or ssh-config you should be able to Vi in and change it....make sure you update your Firewall first.