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Changing ssh listening port - effemmeffe - 6th Feb, 2014 05:47 AM I'd like to access my raspberry from outside of my LAN so I opened a new door on my router to ssh from office. The problem is that if I open the port 22 I get a lot of script kid poking my ssh and I'd rather not. I want to change the default port for ssh from 22 to a higher unused one. But I noticed that changing /etc/ssh/sshd_config has no effect. After some digging I discovered that ssh is launched by inetd with the line: Code: xbian@xbian ~ $ cat /etc/inetd.conf | grep ssh and the ssh port is defined in Code: xbian@xbian ~ $ cat /etc/services | grep ssh How do I change the ssh port? Do I need to define a new service in /etc/services and launch it with inetd? Code: my_new_ssh 2222/tcp # SSH Remote Login Protocol on high port I'm running beta2: Code: xbian@xbian ~ $ cat /etc/xbian_version RE: Changing ssh listening port - mk01 - 6th Feb, 2014 06:13 AM there are two options: you enable upstart job ssh_hid (this is the generally known ssh running through its own daemon (sshd running all the time). then /etc/ssh/sshd_options is fully working like before. second option is almost like you did. the only problem would be that if you create new service name (my_new_ssh) the "ssh" service wont get recognised for system tools & xbian-config - as they all expect ssh. so don't be afraid to change /etc/services by directly editing "ssh 22/tcp" to "ssh 2222/tcp:". RE: Changing ssh listening port - effemmeffe - 6th Feb, 2014 07:33 AM Ok, thanks. How do I restart inetd? I tried sudo /etc/init.d/inetd restart but there is no inetd in init.d... RE: Changing ssh listening port - mk01 - 16th Mar, 2014 08:07 PM once again, init.d was migrated to upstart (/etc/init) service names are files you will see in that dir without .conf suffix. inetd is "openbsd-inetd" so Code: restart openbsd-inetd init.d is still processed as part of backward compatibility (but slowly all is moving away - out of this old concept). RE: Changing ssh listening port - Skywatch - 17th Mar, 2014 09:02 PM Thanks! I've been trying for weeks to get back to my 'usual' ssh port configuration! Skywatch. |