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		kiallmacinnes on Sept 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity > Although I'm not sure how an unprivileged user would be able to stop sshd in order to take over that port. They just need to wait (or, leave their code running in wait) for an admin / system process to restart SSHD - e.g. when patching it.

als0 on Sept 21, 2020 [–]

In theory an unprivileged user can't obtain privileged port numbers through programs because the permission would be denied.

kiallmacinnes on Sept 22, 2020 | [–]

The post I was replying to was specifically referring to using a non-privileged port (2222).

als0 on Sept 23, 2020 | | [–]

Sorry, I misread your comment.

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