WHATPORT(8022) whatport.net WHATPORT(8022)
8022

SSH alternate; Termux sshd

SSH moved off 22 — and specifically the default for Termux's sshd on Android.

TCP IANA: oa-system

Description

IANA registers 8022 as oa-system, which you will rarely encounter. The number's practical life is as an SSH alternate: Termux patches OpenSSH so its sshd defaults to 8022, since an unprivileged Android app cannot bind 22, and plenty of appliances and containers do the same thing for the same reason. An open 8022 that answers with an SSH-2.0- banner is exactly that, and moving the port changes nothing about the protocol's security.

Exposed to the internet?

Expose with care

SSH itself is fine to expose when it is key-only with passwords disabled. The caveat is what tends to sit here — phones and small devices running sshd with a weak or default password — and that a non-standard port is obscurity, not defence.

Check it yourself

$ nc -w 3 TARGET 8022 | head -1

See also

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