I am getting so sick and tired of seeing brute force attempts against SSH traffic. Let’s just change the port that it listens on and then miraculously watch all those brute force attempts disappear. There are a few different ways to go about this in Mac OS X. The first is to just change the port entries in /etc/services (mileage may vary). To do so open /etc/services in your favorite text editor and look for the lines that begin with ssh. These should look something like the following: # Jon Postel ssh 22/udp # SSH Remote Login Protocol ssh 22/tcp # SSH Remote Login Protocol # Tatu Ylonen Just change…