On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:30:19 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > Jacob S wrote: > > I have a friend that I'm helping upgrade Debian on their desktop. > > This friend is not very computer literate - even in Windows. So > > they're having a problem that I need to troubleshoot, but they're > > behind a firewall so I can't ssh into their computer. > > > > There are not currently any ports forwarded from the firewall to > > this computer and we do not have any access to the firewall to > > enable something like this, either. What I am hoping is that I can > > have them establish an ssh connection into my firewall with some > > software that would then allow me to get a shell on their computer.
<snip - good legal disclaimer> > However if that is difficult, the security issues understood, then you > can open a tunnel with ssh from their machine to yours. You could > follow the tunnel back to their machine and then help them. Here is > an example: > > ssh -N -P -R 2222:$(hostname):22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > That ssh's into the remote machine and opens a listening connection on > port 2222. Connections to that port will be forwarded through the > tunnel to the local host port 22. You would give your friend a login > on your machine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and they would also give you a login > on their machine too so that you would be able to log in there. <snip> > You would connect to your friend's machine through the tunnel like > this: > > ssh -p 2222 localhost Ah, and we see once again why Debian-user is such a powerful resource... I hadn't even noticed the -R option for ssh. :-( Thanks, Bob, Frank, Steve and Henrik for the useful examples and explanations. That works beatifully! :-) Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
