(Ubuntu 22.10) SSH default port not changing

SSHd now uses socket-based activation Ubuntu 22.10 or later. 

The are unused, now that I read the comments in full I found:/etc/ssh/sshd_config

# Port and ListenAddress options are not used when sshd is socket-activated,
# which is now the default in Ubuntu. See sshd_config(5) and
# /usr/share/doc/openssh-server/README.Debian.gz for details.

 So there are two options for you to change from default port:

• Turning off this change and reverting to how SSHd worked prior to this update

  • systemctl disable --now ssh.socket
  • systemctl enable --now ssh.service
  • Then the /etc/ssh/sshd_config works again with Ports and Addresses setting

• OR Listening socket stream update

  • mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/ssh.socket.d

  • cat >/etc/systemd/system/ssh.socket.d/listen.conf <<EOF

    ​​​​​​​[Socket] 
    ListenStream=12345
    EOF

  • sudo systemctl daemon-reload

  • sudo systemctl restart ssh

It should then state it's started listening on the new port: sudo systemctl status ssh

Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 12345.
Server listening on :: port 12345