> > Why 1022? The only port you need is 22.

> Because if you use certificate based authentication as opposed to 
> password authentication, the server connects back to you at
> port 1022. This was at least my experience when fiddling with
> SSH and certificates on unix boxes a long time ago.

I only ever open port 22, and that's with a proxy so there's no way to connect
back to 1022 even if I wanted to... the destination doesn't know the source's
IP address, just the proxy's.

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