Re: a record?

[Yann Berthier <yb () bashibuzuk net>]

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> On 11/20/05, Alexei Roudnev <alex () relcom net> wrote:
> > Other approach exists as well - SecureID on firewall. Login to firewall,
> > authenticate, and have dynamic access list which opens ssh for you (and
> > still keep ssh on port != 22).
>
> Or VPN in, or set up a tunnel of some sort.  Have ssh available over
> the tunneled interface.  Yup, lots of options available.
>
> Though, if you have a secure ssh and reasonable control of your
> passwords it is probably safe to leave it at port 22 rather than
> resorting to security by obscurity measures like running it on a
> higher number port or (as at least one webhost does) running it on
> 443, with some kind of shim listening on that port, intercepting
> requests to it and redirecting them to apache or sshd as appropriate.

   Amen. Now, without any consideration regarding security, obscurity or
   whatever, I'd say that having an sshd on port 443 somewhere is a good
   idea if you happen to use a gprs network where all except 'web' ports
   are filtered (orange.fr comes to mind - at least they used to do that
   when i was still living in france)

      - yann