From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14819 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bud Rogers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: ssh rulez Date: 29 Mar 1998 14:12:13 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <199803291937.LAA11655@radius1.teleport.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153949 18384 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:45:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:45:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA18456 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 12:12:44 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA23262 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 14:13:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAN03087; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 14:49:11 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 29 Mar 1998 14:13:07 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA05872 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 14:13:00 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 17869 invoked by uid 504); 29 Mar 1998 20:12:47 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 17866 invoked from network); 29 Mar 1998 20:12:46 -0000 Original-Received: from twocups.tanet.net (budr@207.3.90.239) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 29 Mar 1998 20:12:37 -0000 Original-Received: (from budr@localhost) by twocups.tanet.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA01683; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 14:12:13 -0600 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Felix Lee's message of "Sun, 29 Mar 1998 11:39:08 -0800" Original-Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.3/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14819 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14819 Felix Lee 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