From: Bud Rogers <budr@tanet.net>
Subject: Re: ssh rulez
Date: 29 Mar 1998 14:12:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2n2e9i7du.fsf@twocups.tanet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Felix Lee's message of "Sun, 29 Mar 1998 11:39:08 -0800"
Felix Lee <flee@teleport.com> writes:
> > > As root, I envoke ssh with:
> > > # ssh -C -o "CompressionLevel 9" -L 119:news.iglou.com:119 iglou.com
> > > and set the select method to (nntp "localhost").
>
> note that unless you're firewalled or something, anyone can
> connect to that port on your machine and get to iglou.com,
> pretending that they're coming from you.
Is that true? I thought the whole point of ssh/sshd was allow secure
remote access through encryption, and host/user verification by encrypted
keys.
--
Bud Rogers <budr@tanet.net>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-03-29 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-03-28 8:16 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-28 16:43 ` Harry Putnam
1998-03-28 17:14 ` Bud Rogers
1998-03-28 19:17 ` Richard Hoskins
1998-03-29 8:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-29 19:39 ` Felix Lee
1998-03-29 20:12 ` Bud Rogers [this message]
1998-03-29 20:38 ` Felix Lee
1998-03-30 20:05 ` Richard Hoskins
1998-03-29 21:36 ` Alan Shutko
1998-03-30 13:01 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1998-03-31 16:37 ` Francois Felix Ingrand
1998-04-01 14:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-31 21:46 ` Manoj Srivastava
1998-04-15 3:50 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-04-22 18:27 ` Eric Hendrickson
1998-04-26 11:44 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-07-12 19:07 ` Eric D. Hendrickson
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