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Might I make one suggestion: Make sure your SSH port is below 1024 (but still not 22). Reason being if your Linode is ever compromised a bad user may be able t
by xachen 14y ago
Might I make one suggestion:
Make sure your SSH port is below 1024 (but still not 22). Reason being if your Linode is ever compromised a bad user may be able to crash sshd and run their own rogue sshd as a non root user since your original port is configured >1024.
- angryasian 14y agothanks for this tip I never realized this. More in the link if interested http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/16564/why-are-the-first-1024-ports-restricted-to-the-root-user-only http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/16564/why-are-the-fi...
- feross 14y agoThis is an excellent suggestion. Thanks!