diff --git a/installer/remove/tpot.yml b/installer/remove/tpot.yml
index 0783bd79..eb89ae86 100644
--- a/installer/remove/tpot.yml
+++ b/installer/remove/tpot.yml
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
     - name: Revert Comment out Port(s) in sshd_config, can cause port conflicts on deploy (AlmaLinux, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Raspbian, Rocky, Ubuntu)
       ansible.builtin.replace:
         path: /etc/ssh/sshd_config
-        regexp: "^# (Port [0-9]+)"
+        regexp: '^# (Port (?!22$)[0-9]+)'
         replace: '\1'
       when: ansible_distribution in ["AlmaLinux", "Debian", "Fedora", "openSUSE Tumbleweed", "Raspbian", "Rocky", "Ubuntu"]
       tags: