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I have OpenSSH installed via MacPorts on a macOS 10.14 system. I want to change the port its listening on to something other than 22, and have changed /opt/local/etc/ssh/ssh_config and uncommented the Port line like so:

Host *
  Port 12345

I then restarted OpenSSH with:

sudo port unload openssh
sudo port load openssh

However I can still only connect on port 22. How do I change the port properly?

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  • For anyone else trying to get MacPorts to work on port 22 - the default seems to be port 2222 (probably so as to not conflict with the built in "remote login" sharing preferences). I turned off the built in remote login and then edited sshd_config set the port to 22 and it now seems to be working.
    – j-beda
    Commented Aug 8 at 16:59

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Reset to default
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Always worth checking some of the related answers, for example, and it hadn't clicked for me at first.

You need to change /opt/local/etc/ssh/sshd_config. You've been amending the default port used by the client config.

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