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Think twice before doing this
Authored by: macubergeek on Aug 05, '01 08:39:05PM

1. tunnelling like this effectively circumvents the security policy being enforced by the proxy server/firewall
2. this behaviour might be against your company's security policy hense
3. it might get you fired

Traffic between the two machines is probably not encrypted so you are essentially passing usernames and passwords in the clear, they could be intercepted, session could be hijacked...

just think twice before doing this.
You might consider instead using vnc piped over ssh instead. At least you could make a security argument that the traffic is encrypted at least....just a thought.



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