Thanks Brett, As usual the man pages are a little cryptic, but I'll battle my way through it and yell for help if I get stuck. The Cisco box has NAT translation which will explicitly point incoming packets on port 22 to whichever internal box I tell it: that's how I run mail and web, so that' part is not a problem :-)
Cheers, Julian. =================== At 06:59 AM 3/7/02, you wrote: >On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 00:45, Julian Opificius wrote: > > Friends, > > > > What would be a good way to login to my RH7.2 box from a remote > location to > > do things like adding email users, etc? Seems to me there are more secure > > way than telnet, that are more favored these days, am I right? > > > >absolutely! ssh is what you want. fully encrypted including password >auth. I always use DSA keys that require not only a passphrase but also >a pub key installed in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 that matches the private >keyon the machine you are connecting from. > >I also rpm -e telnet > > > I suppose I could Webmin, but I'm trying to do it the basic way first > > before I get lazy on the GUI tools. > >Webmin is very cool but by default uses unencryted passwords (not good) >so make sure you install the SSL stuff for it. > > > > > > I'm running NAT on a Cisco 678, so if there's a port to open up, pls tell > > me tell me that too. > >This sounds like the thing that will give you the most problems. Is the >host that you are wanting to connect to behind the Cisco in provate ip >address space? If so you won't be able to see it from outside beacuse >the address won't be routable on a properly configured router. > >I have a linus box that is my firewall and use a vpn connection into it >that places my laptop on the internal network for this very reason. > >I am assumming you should be able to forward the ssh port (22) to the >internal box but I really don't know anything about the Cisco stuff at >all. > > > >HTH >Bret > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ----------------------------------------- The classical sculptor called Phidias Whose knowledge of art was insidious, Once carved Aphrodite Without any nightie Which shocked all the purely fastidious. Julian Opificius. ICQ 3268206. ----------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
