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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Hardware Management Console
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 12, 2018

RELATED IDEAS

Port 22 is to be changed for HMC access(SSH)

The port 22 is fixed for SSH within HMC. As per our Information Security Observation, The known port 22 is vulnerable and can be hacked.
We require to change this port to some other number.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 18, 2020

    Please let us know if you got a chance to try out any of the options mentioned earlier and if it addressed your requirements.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 8, 2020

    Can you please let us know if you got a chance to try the options suggested in an earlier sequence & if that helped in this case ?

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 5, 2019

    Did you get a chance to check if any of the options mentioned in the earlier sequences would satisfy the security requirements?

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 15, 2018

    .Hi,

    Please check comments in previous sequence and let us know if you have any questions/comments.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 8, 2018

    Discussing with our security team, even if the port is changed from 22 to any other port, a NMAP scan can expose it on the new port. So ability to change the ssh port doesn't solve the problem completely. Couple of alternate options that can be tried are
    1. Lock down the ssh login to not use password and use only authorized keys (with HMC V9 R1 920, we have the option to disable password based login).
    2. Allow incoming from specific IP addresses instead of allow incoming from all IP address.

    Hope this helps to address your concern on using ssh with port 22

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 17, 2018

    Hi,

    Currently, the ssh port on the HMC is fixed and cannot be changed. We are evaluating your request.

    Thanks.

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