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TOTP SSH port fluxing

Some people change their SSH port on their servers so that it is slightly harder to find for bots or other nasties and while that is generally viewed as an action of security through obscurity it does work very well at killing a lot of the automated logins you always see in /var/log/auth.log .
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May 22, 2016TOTP SSH port fluxing by benjojo1213358

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