Hi
I am experiencing a problem of bypassing firewalls. I know that "ssh -R" can forward ports from remote server to local ports. But it requires an account of the remote server, which seems to be a security hole. I am looking for other programs which can do so, any suggestions?
Thanks.
Wei Yu wrote:
I am experiencing a problem of bypassing firewalls. I know that "ssh -R" can forward ports from remote server to local ports. But it requires an account of the remote server, which seems to be a security hole. I am looking for other programs which can do so, any suggestions?
I don't know any way you could forward a port from a remote host to anywhere without authenticating on said remote host.
I'm not quite sure why you consider the existance of an account to be a security hole ? you could configure an account that won't allow an interactive login (shell set to /bin/false), and JUST do port forwarding, using -N on the ssh command.
Oops, I missed the -N option. Thanks!
On 9/14/07, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
Wei Yu wrote:
I am experiencing a problem of bypassing firewalls. I know that "ssh -R" can forward ports from remote server to local ports. But it requires an account of the remote server, which seems to be a security hole. I am looking for other programs which can do so, any suggestions?
I don't know any way you could forward a port from a remote host to anywhere without authenticating on said remote host.
I'm not quite sure why you consider the existance of an account to be a security hole ? you could configure an account that won't allow an interactive login (shell set to /bin/false), and JUST do port forwarding, using -N on the ssh command. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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