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The (short) story of how the SSH port became 22. (www.ssh.com)
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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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[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Boring story:
22 was free, he asked for it, he got.

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 6 points 8 months ago

And it was between 21 and 23, two services that SSH was replacing (FTP and Telnet).

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 points 8 months ago

Them fins must be doing something right. Linux, ssh... Probably something else amazing I'm not aware of as well!