On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:30:42PM +0800, Benjamin Oris Jr wrote:
> Some sysads have used SSH to do this. They ssh to the LAN's gateway
> and from there ssh to any pc on LAN itself. It's a simple solution.
> But is it naive regarding security?

I actually do this. I have a sequence of ssh's executed at a time, as in
an Xfce shortcut running "wterm -bg gray -e ssh -C -t host1 ssh -C t
host2 ssh -C targethost" to pierce multiple walls (all of which I need
to have an account on, of course). I don't see what the problem with
this is, considering I have login access on host1, host2 and targethost,
and that everything is properly encrypted along the way (I use
public/private keys so that I don't send my password out in tunneled
cleartext).

Perhaps the more experienced admins can comment?

 --> Jijo

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