Change SSH port

[dahamsta]

Is it safe to change the SSH port to something non-standard on Plesk 7.5? None of my users are allowed ssh access, so I'm really just checking to make sure it won't affect the CP in any way.

adam

 

[dahamsta]

*bump*

Anybody?

 

[xfreelancer]

I changed it without problems. I don't want ssh on 22 either.

 

[dahamsta]

Thanks for the info xfreelancer.

 

[Patt]

hi,

how to change it?

Thanks.

 

[breun]

Depends on your OS, but on Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora machines you have to edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config (insert Port 2222 for instance) and restart the SSH service.

 

[lvalics]

After you change the file (mentioned by breun), don't forget to allow in firewall the port.

 

[TimuM]

Originally posted by breun
Depends on your OS, but on Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora machines you have to edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config (insert Port 2222 for instance) and restart the SSH service.

When I log-in to SSH, I see {root@serv root]# I do not also see the etc on my dir list. How can I reach that file.

Thanks
Timu

 

[breun]

When you login the current working directory is your home directory. If you're logging in as root this is /root. This doesn't really matter as /etc/ssh/sshd_config is an absolute path and you can just open that file with any text editor you like. (You could 'cd /etc/ssh' to change the working dir to the dir where the sshd_config file is located if you'd want to.)

If this is all not clear to you then you might want to first learn a thing or two about basic command-line operations. The Introduction to Linux guide might be a good starting point.