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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/9907720
The SSH port is 22. This is the story of how it got that port number. And practical configuration instructions.
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What an exceptionally unexceptionable story. Good read
I just assumed that 21 other things already existed.
The -p <port> option can be used to specify the port number to connect to when using the ssh command on Linux. The -P <port> (note: capital P) option can be used with SFTP and scp.
Why is it that the switch on ssh is -p but in scp/sftp it is -P?
This has caused me a real headache in the past as ssh doesn’t throw an error message when you use a switch like “ssh -P 8080”
At a guess, it’s because the function of preserving file dates and times is more likely than setting the port to something other than the default, so it gets the lowercase character, whereas ssh doesn’t do anything with files so the port option gets the lowercase character.
The inconsistency is annoying though. I wonder if they could make ssh’s
-poption case insensitive so-Pworks across the board. (Maybe-Pis reserved for some unknown future purpose?)A work-around would be introducing long options and having
--portbe the option’s long name across all the commands, but then, that comes with its own problems.
I remapped SSH to 360
I learned something today. Thanks!
Me too. My biggest takeaway though was that ‘SSH’ is a company today, providing network and security services. Interesting!
It was a company almost from the start. In the mid 90s Tatu Ylonen created ssh v1 and released it as freeware, then shortly afterwards apparently he regretted it and created ssh v2, made it proprietary and commercialized it with his company.
In the late 90s some OpenBSD guys then forked the unencumbered ssh v1 source to create OpenSSH and implemented ssh v2 with it and their ssh version eventually gained traction and became dominant.
As freeware or free software? Because if it was freeware, I don’t understand how OpenBSD could have forked it
Even more interesting! Thanks!!
Tatu was also a bit of a d*ck about the thing. There were some GPL violations when he made the licensing more restrictive, and at one point he accused the OpenSSH project of violating his trademark, even though his original license permitted the use of the ssh name.
