My beloved Lenovo notebook actually is gone for repair due to some hardware trouble – so I am stuck with a not-so-beloved mac. For working I do need a sshd daemon running, which is – hooray – shipped per default. You just need to activate it: Go to System settings, look for ‘Sharing’. There’s a Tab named ‘Services’ […]
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Fun with SSH and PuTTy
Some of you folks might already know putty, the free SSH Client which we’ll use for toying around today showing you the reason why most companies do block SSH.
How to grant limited access to your server
It isn’t always easy to offer services to other people in the IT field – especially if you want to be sure to limit their access to their files and folders to ensure they cannot break things. To do that, we use rssh, the restricted shell. First of all, let’s start with the installation procedure, which is a […]
SSH Tunneling
If you are able to connect to a ssh server, you can connect to the whole world. How does that work? ssh -N user@remote.ssh -L 6667/target.host/6667 The command in pieces: -N circumvents that a shell gets spawned. user is the user on our remote ssh server. -L is the command for the tunnel. Its three parameters are Local […]