Sean's Blog » 22 http://seanbehan.com Web Programming, Ruby on Rails, Wordpress, PHP from Burlington, Vermont Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:44:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Change default ssh port number on Ubuntu http://seanbehan.com/linux/change-default-ssh-port-number-on-ubuntu/ http://seanbehan.com/linux/change-default-ssh-port-number-on-ubuntu/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:46:42 +0000 bseanvt http://seanbehan.com/?p=499

Login as the root user or as a user that can execute sudo commands.

#open this file for editing...
vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Find the line that reads

Port 22

Change this to an different and an available port number…

Port 8000

Next reload ssh

/etc/init.d/ssh reload

You won’t be kicked out of your session. But if you want to open a new connection to your server you need to specify the port number for the connection.

ssh -p8000 root@yourdomain.com
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