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    You should absolutely not change it.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Jun 18 at 19:30
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    Most of your risk from exposing SSH service to an untrusted network is going to be attacks on either the protocol itself (compromising the integrity or secrecy of the connection) or the authentication process. Exploits that care about the privileges of the main sshd process itself are not particularly common, get patched very quickly, and are usually technical enough that they’re only likely to be used in a targeted attack (as opposed to the low-effort dragnet attacks that will account for essentially all illegitimate traffic you see for the service if it’s exposed to the internet).
    – Austin Hemmelgarn
    Commented Jun 19 at 12:02