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Use a reverse SSH tunnel to get around firewalls
Authored by: cirrus on Feb 26, '05 12:12:15AM

Why not run the ssh server on a different, not blocked port. I know you can do it in Linux by editing sshd_config, and the same should apply to OSX.
Then you can run your tunnel command as usual only by adding a -D new_port.



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Use a reverse SSH tunnel to get around firewalls
Authored by: jdb8167 on Mar 03, '05 07:56:13PM

Ultimately, this is much easier. A simple double click and I own her machine (with her permission of course.) If I had thought of it before, I would never have bothered with trying to port-forward.

This is really something that I think a lot of people here don't understand. My mother has a hard time with what we consider very simple concepts. I have to continually remind her how to cut/copy and paste. She has a hard time dragging icons from one window to another. Even the terminology is hard for her, she calls windows pages or sheets and gets confused when I don't use her terminology.

This is a very easy way to solve her computer problems. I put the applescript in her dock. I tell her to click it when she is having a problem and from there I can fix whatever it is that is bothering her.



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