Oops, I missed the -N option. Thanks! On 9/14/07, John R Pierce <pierce at 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 at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Zijing 15# 1404B Tsinghua Univ. +86 -10 -51537235 Zig -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070914/2262aa5d/attachment-0005.html>