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Re: Is port 22 safe for SSH through firewall?



On 2007-03-13 Adam Gerson wrote:
> I would like to open up port 22 so my tech staff and I can ssh, scp
> into the servers. How safe is it for me to open up port 22 on my
> firewall. I noticed when I opened up the ftp port I got hits banging
> away at it for entrance. I closed it right away.

Enforce public key authentication on the servers and you'll be fine.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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erase the hard disk, then reinstall Mac OS X and your backed up files."
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