Ankur Agrawal proclaimed:
> my company's sysadmin is reluctant to give me ssh access to the LAN from
> outside.
> I read somewhere that ssh is safer compared to dial-in, for accessing
> machines inside a firewall from the outside world.
> Would anyone know of any specific site/article that talks about it ?
Actually, IMO, the safest way to access machines behind the firewall is by
dialling into a modem rack behind the firewall. That way, you have a
dedicated connection between your machine and the machine you are dialling
into. Someone would have to have physical access to the phone loop between
you and the remote machine to break in.
ssh is pretty safe. But the problem is when you ssh into a machine behind
the firewall (or the actual firewall itself), the packets flow through
various machines on the open internet. J. Wiley Cracker could,
theoretically, sniff your packets passing through his machine and break
in. It is possible, but IMO, rare at the moment.
Thaths
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