On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, J.L. Coenders wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering how safe it is to open the ssh port up to the internet. I am > behind a router which is firewalled to block all traffic, unless I open it up > and route it to my computer. Is it safe to open ssh up to the internet, so I > can run applications of my home computer over the internet? Depends on how paranoid you are. Every open port creates some risk. Generally speaking ssh is fairly secure but there have been exploits found in it in the past. As long as you keep things up2date you should be OK. You can as others will suggest move the port ssh runs on to a non-standard port which means that the scripts that run everyday looking for weak passwds and known exploits will not know where to look. You can also disable root logins via ssh among other things, depending on your level of paranoia. HTH, Tom
