On: How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server

[rdl]

I hate it when people do that, myself. Especially when you have a lot of other tools, many of which don't take port arguments easily.

IMO best practice is to firewall off everything except some bastion hosts or VPN gateway.

[solfox → rdl]

Totally agree. If you stick to good security practices, working around a non-standard port is an unnecessary annoyance imho.

[pseudonym → rdl]

I actually do this on my personal server because more than one public wifi (and one of my previous jobs, at a public high school) disallowed outbound 22 connections.