Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 10:08 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > >> Timothy Murphy writes: >> >> >>> What is the safest way of allowing access to a home system >>> from a remote computer? I am running Fedora-6 and shorewall. >>> >>> >>> Any advice or suggestions gratefully received. >>> >> >> Run ssh on a non-default port. >> >> >> Turn off passwords. Use ssh certificates. >> >> > There is something wrong with just saying use ssh. One assumes that the > home machines are masqueraded behind a router. Router or no router, it doesn't matter. You just need to open a port for SSH in the firewall if there is no router. If there is a router, you just need to configure one port to forward to your SSH server. > It seems to me that one must > configure that all packets arriving at the router address be routed to a > particular home machine address. Why? SSH only needs one port. -- William Hooper
