Comments on Tektastic: Mac OS-X tips: How to run SSHD on an alternative p...

Thanks this was very easy to follow.

2010-04-28T10:30:05.042-07:00

Thanks this was very easy to follow.

I know this post is a few years old but I found th...

2009-11-11T16:33:54.172-08:00

I know this post is a few years old but I found this information very useful to implement on my snow leopard server after discovering repeated attempts by person(s) unknown to hack into my server via port 22. The only additions I made were adding a reference to the UDP port and of course choosing a different port. Thank you for this info.

sudo vi /etc/services :wq :w (saves the file) :q ...

2009-10-13T22:40:29.987-07:00

sudo vi /etc/services
:wq

:w (saves the file)
:q (quits the file)

Use vi, of course!

2009-09-15T19:17:25.745-07:00

Use vi, of course!

how do you as edit /etc/services? (im new to bash)...

2009-05-06T13:27:00.000-07:00

how do you as edit /etc/services? (im new to bash)

Telling everybody what port? Gawd, come on! If y...

2009-02-19T20:16:00.000-08:00

Telling everybody what port? Gawd, come on! If you're not smart enough to infer that the port number is an example--you have 64,000 to choose from in your own setup--the you probably shouldn't be screwing with SSH in the first place.

Thanks, this worked for me :)

2008-12-02T08:57:00.000-08:00

Thanks, this worked for me :)

I posted awhile back asking how to know what port ...

2008-10-29T00:12:00.000-07:00

I posted awhile back asking how to know what port numbers are allocated to programs, and which are not. The answer is determined by the IANA, and you can see a full list of ports at: http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers

The list includes all 64,000 ports, so it is long. But if you had a particular number in mind you like to try, you can scroll and see if it is unallocated or not.

My only original problem with this hack is that, well, you're telling everyone what port is being used, which sort of defeats the whole purpose!

Thanks for the tips. For what it's worth, people ...

2008-09-07T21:16:00.000-07:00

Thanks for the tips. For what it's worth, people with the excellent linux-based Linksys 54g router (and variations of that router) can use a few awesome open source firmwares that will give the ability to port map, along with lots of other juicy stuff.

http://www.dd-wrt.com

You basically get a very expensive router in the body of a standard, cheap router.

This produced an odd warning on Leopard. I see in ...

2008-03-09T19:56:00.000-07:00

This produced an odd warning on Leopard. I see in Console:

3/9/08 10:48:06 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.openssh.sshd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight

Seems to work regardless.

Best explanation I can find:

http://www.nabble.com/The-mysterious-SHAuthorizationRight-key-td14115115.html

Re: The mysterious SHAuthorizationRight key
by Dave Zarzycki Dec 03, 2007; 01:01pm :: R
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A project at Apple is overloading the launchd configuration file
schema to store non-launchd preferences. We hope to resolve this
matter in the next major version of Mac OS X.

davez

If I want to choose another port number, how do I ...

2008-01-22T10:46:00.000-08:00

If I want to choose another port number, how do I determine which numbers are good or bad choices? Could I interfere with other processes if I choose an arbitrary number?

No worries, glad it was useful. Yes - of course y...

2007-12-11T04:51:00.000-08:00

No worries, glad it was useful. Yes - of course you must enable the port on your firewall, I think I mentioned this too.

Hey, thanks for this - really useful! I have one ...

2007-12-10T14:28:00.000-08:00

Hey, thanks for this - really useful! I have one thing to add though - you (may) need to add an entry to the firewall settings to allow connections.