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Which is irrelevant if you have any one of: strong passwords, no passwords, fail2ban

Which is relevant if you're one to actually look at your login attempt logs.

Worth looking at:

http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2013/02/theres-no-protection-in-hi...

2222 is a dumb choice as an alternative port, it's both obvious and quite commonly used. I'm using a port on 4XXXX-range that's normally not used for anything and therefore not scanned by the bots unless all the 65536 ports are. The automated login attempts disappeared almost immediately, except for a few that were quickly blocked.

Now the logs are clean from automated login bots, the only thing left are real dedicated hacking attempts that is worth pursuing further.

It's what I do, you can't break in a door that doesn't exist, only those you know exist.

>Sure, it'll not stop dedicated manual intrusion attempts, but it will actually prevent a ton of automated bots

Doesn't take long to port scan a server.