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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Changing the port isn't really much obfuscation though. It doesn't take long to scan all ports for the entire IPv4 range (see masscan)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It helps against stupid automated attacks though.

If someone has changed the port it's likely that they have set up a great password or disabled password auth all together.

It's worth it for just having cleaner logs and fewer attempts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It’s worth it for just having cleaner logs

Those logs are useful to know which IPs to permanently block :)