To change the default SSH port, the first thing you want to do is backup the current SSH configuration on your system. To do that, run the commands below.<\/p>\n
Next, run the commands below to open the default SSH configuration file<\/p>\n # If you want to change the port on a SELinux system, you have to tell Save the file.<\/p>\n After saving, don\u2019t exit until you\u2019ve completed these steps. By default, SELinux only allows port 22 for SSH. What you need to do is enable the newly created port through SELinux. To do that, run the commands below<\/p>\n If you run the commands above and get an error that semanage command not found, run the commands below to install it.<\/p>\n Then go and run the semange commend again to allow the new port through SELinux.<\/p>\n After that, run the commands below to allow the new port through the firewall.<\/p>\n Reload the firewall configurations<\/p>\n Restart SSH by running the commands below.<\/p>\n Verify that SSH is now running on the new port by running the commands below.<\/p>\n Exit and try signing in using the new port number.<\/p>\n Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To change the default SSH port, the first thing you want to do is backup the current SSH configuration on your system. To do that, run the commands below. cp \/etc\/ssh\/sshd_config \/etc\/ssh\/sshd_config.bak Next, run the commands below to open the default SSH configuration file sudo vi \/etc\/ssh\/sshd_config # If you want to change the port\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorial"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}cp \/etc\/ssh\/sshd_config \/etc\/ssh\/sshd_config.bak<\/code><\/p>\nsudo vi \/etc\/ssh\/sshd_config<\/code><\/p>\n
\n# SELinux about this change.
\n# semanage port -a -t ssh_port_t -p tcp #PORTNUMBER
\n#
\nPort 2244<\/strong>
\n#AddressFamily any
\n#ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
\n#ListenAddress ::<\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\nsemanage port -a -t ssh_port_t -p tcp 2244<\/code><\/p>\nyum -y install policycoreutils-python<\/code><\/p>\nfirewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=2244\/tcp<\/code><\/p>\nfirewall-cmd --reload<\/code><\/p>\nsystemctl restart sshd.service<\/code><\/p>\nss -tnlp | grep ssh<\/code><\/p>\nssh root@192.168.0.1 -p 2244<\/code><\/p>\n