Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 10:08 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Timothy Murphy writes:
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>> What is the safest way of allowing access to a home system
>> from a remote computer? I am running Fedora-6 and shorewall.
>>
>>
>> Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
>>
>
> Run ssh on a non-default port.
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> Turn off passwords. Use ssh certificates.
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>
There is something wrong with just saying use ssh. One assumes that the
home machines are masqueraded behind a router.
Router or no router, it doesn't matter. You just need to open a port for
SSH in the firewall if there is no router. If there is a router, you just
need to configure one port to forward to your SSH server.
It seems to me that one must
configure that all packets arriving at the router address be routed to a
particular home machine address.
Why? SSH only needs one port.
--
William Hooper