On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 3:17:23 PM UTC-4, Nils Bruin wrote: > > On Sep 4, 12:00 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Remark: I was about to suggest a VPN too. > > As a first approximation you could just use ssh remote port > forwarding. If your mac is happy to accept ssh connections on > localhost then you can forward, say, sage.math.washington.edu:10000 to > your mac's lcoalhost:22 by exewcuting on your mac: > > ssh -R 10000:localhost:22 sage.math.washington.edu > > With that connection and port forwarding active, people can use > > ssh -p 10000 sage.math.washington.edu > > to connect to your mac. Since *you* initiated the connection from your > laptop, Verizon's firewall doesn't come into play. sage.math's > firewall does, of course. Since sage.math only allows incoming > connections on arbitrary ports locally, people will have to be logged > in on sage.math. I'd say that's a desirable security feature. > > This isn't necessarily ideal for other reasons, but I may at least email Volker later to see if something like this could work.
> Essentially, ssh already comes with all the tools for a DIY VPN. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
