<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td valign='top' style='font: inherit;'>Hi Steve<br><br>Can you tell me a little more about 'ssh' and 'casual poking on port 22', please?<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 26/6/08, Steve Caddy <i><steve.m.caddy@ntlworld.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Steve Caddy <steve.m.caddy@ntlworld.com><br>Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Security on Linux<br>To: nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>Date: Thursday, 26 June, 2008, 8:07 AM<br><br><pre>Martin wrote:<br><br>> No virus scanners needed. No firewall needed even unless you're going<br>to<br>> start playing with setting up open services.<br><br>About the only config change I've made to my Ubuntu install, is to change<br>the <br>port that ssh appears on, as it deters casual poking on port 22.<br><br>Steve<br><br>-- <br>Steven M Caddy, MEng
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