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Date:      Wed, 7 May 2003 22:33:30 +0000
From:      Daniela <dgw@liwest.at>
To:        Brad Lisoweski <brad.lisoweski@siemens.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why is port 22 open by default?
Message-ID:  <200305072233.30197.dgw@liwest.at>
In-Reply-To: <60684F9727113D438523F4B5BD9207DE42F8F3@troll3.trangosoft.com>
References:  <60684F9727113D438523F4B5BD9207DE42F8F3@troll3.trangosoft.com>

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On Wednesday 07 May 2003 20:03, Brad Lisoweski wrote:
> Would you rather have telnet open?
>
> IMHO, SSH is secure, and is fine to be open by default.  If you are
> paranoid, compile ipfilter or ipfw into your kernel and block access to
> port 22.

Thanks for your reply.

I run a shell server, so I need SSH. 
I'm still relatively new to all this, so I figured if it is open by default, 
it must be secure.
Before I thought that easily exploitable holes are regularly discovered in 
SSH.

Daniela




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