> discovered that the sshd daemon is listening on port 22 by default Your comment confused me and I had to read it more than once. I’d expect the SSH service t

> discovered that the sshd daemon is listening on port 22 by default Your comment confused me and I had to read it more than once. I’d expect the SSH service to default to listening on the default port and I’d be annoyed if a distribution had configured the sshd daemon to default to listening to a port other than 22. I’m guessing that your main problem with the distribution is that the SSH service was automatically enabled in the first place (without your knowledge).