[olug] SSHD on a different port

[Brian Wiese]

I was just having some difficulties lately with changing the port of my
openssh server, so I thought I'd share just in case anyone else ever runs
into the same problem.

So, I just wanted to change the port sshd runs on, should be simple
enough... edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and set 'Port xxx' where xxx is a
valid port number (default is 22).  So I did that, stoped (#
/etc/init.d/ssh stop) and started (# /etc/init.d/ssh start) the sshd
deamon, and tried to connect as:

$ ssh bwiese at localhost:xxx      and      $ ssh bwiese at localhost xxx

That didn't work, but its not the server's fault, which I had thought, it
was stupid me's fault, in the client. I thought the port was added after a
colon or a space, reading man ssh though, we find you use the -p option.
So the command as

$ ssh bwiese at localhost -p xxx

did work. :) Great. now trying scp?  Simple too, after checking the man
page on scp.  To copy a file from a local directory to a remote one is
something like this.

$ scp -P xxx filetotrasnfer.txt bwiese@<ip address>:~/path/to/copy/to/

so, in case anyone else decides to try changing the default ssh port,
there ya go. notice in scp though that it is a capital P and the port
option comes first in the command... weird. :)
peace

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Brian Wiese
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bwiese at cotse.net
"FREEDOM!"  - Braveheart

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