SSH IP blocking?

[Kent Borg]

sdavmor wrote:
> We just selected a different high number port to move all SSH
> requests to, and closed off port 22. Now our company stores don't
> even acknowledge the connection attempt and present a "login"
> unless the request comes in on the high number port we chose.
>   

I once had an account on a machine with the sshd moved to a non-standard 
port, and the machine was not maintained, and there was a security hole 
in sshd (this was many years ago), and it was broken into. Obscurity can 
help, but don't rely on it.

-kb, the Kent who doesn't recycle passwords anymore.