[aklug] Re: Remote access to data

I was cleaning out some email yesterday, re-read this, and it rang a
bell with something I had just read on Slashdot ...

Cryptographically hiding your SSH ports.

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/08/1417214&from=rss

Don't know if it will help anybody here. I know its over my head, but ...

It apparently goes along with that port knocking stuff. Also over my head.

Jim G

Leif Sawyer wrote:
> Damien Hull writeses...
>
>> I'm at the coffee shop trying to access my data back at the=20
>> home office. I have access to my DMZ. Most of the time
>> that's all I need access to.=20
>> Today is a little different. I'm missing a few files on my=20
>> test server. I need to access my data storage server in the
>> internal network.
>> =20
>> I could do one of the following.
>> =20
>> * Allow ssh into the privet network
>> o green interface on IPCop
>> * Setup a VPN
>> o Doesn't give me ssh access
>> o I would only be able to grab data on the shared directory
>> =20
>>
>
> You don't say what OS is running on your data storage server, or test
> server, or the like.
>
> But you could, you know, easily tunnel ssh inside of ssh.
> which means also, sftp in ssh.
>
> ssh -x -f -L ${PORT}:${DEST}:22 ${USER}@${BASTION} "sleep 10" && \
> sftp -oPort=3D${PORT} ${USER}@localhost
>
> yah?
>
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Received on Wed Jan 9 17:19:56 2008