[wellylug] Remote login

William Hamilton william.hamilton at gmail.com
Mon Apr 25 15:55:58 NZST 2005


Cliff Pratt wrote:
> Rob Giltrap wrote:
> 
>> jumbophut wrote:
>>
>>>> What I would like to be able to do is intermittently allow
> 
>  >>> for a remote guru based on the internet to login to both of
>  >>> these systems and do 'stuff'. At the same time I obviously
>  >>> want to minimise the chance of any nasty people
>  >>> hacking my system.
> 
>>>>
>>> I may have misunderstood the question, but it sounds like
> 
>  >> ssh is what you need.  Install the server on both machines,
>  >> and disable it when you don't want it used.  Any ssh client
>  >> at the other end should work fine (use the built-in on *nix
>  >> systems, or Putty on Windows).
> 
>>>
>> Okay so I set up SSH on the servers but how do I setup the
> 
>  > NAT traversal? The client at the other end will not be able
>  > to find the server due to NAT, correct?
> 
>>
> In the router set it to forward all traffic to the router's
> external address and port 22 to the correct internal address
> and port 22. *How* you do it with a particular router depends
> on the router. Don't know how you do it on the XH1151.
> 
> My ssh traffic gets NATted twice, once at the modem/router and again at 
> the firewall.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Cliff
> 
> 

Another thing to do would be to only allow keys.  username/password 
logins.

My 2c

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