You know what it does do though? Dramatically reduces the amount of log spam :). Running SSH on port 22 vs. even just 2222 significantly reduces the number of f

You know what it does do though? Dramatically reduces the amount of log spam :). Running SSH on port 22 vs. even just 2222 significantly reduces the number of failed login attempt messages. They'd always fail anyway unless they happened to somehow get ahold of my ssh private key, but it's sure a lot less annoying when looking for something in the logs to not have to filter through all that noise.