Hi Jason,
I am guessing that you did not follow the start of our informative
discussion here.
i have no personal ssh.config because I cannot run Linux directly as a
computer system due to my individual accessibility needs.
I run the programs with which Mike profoundly helped me troubleshoot from
my DOS desktop,
reaching a company where I have a shell account of my own, who is using
an alternative
port from 22 and who still incorporates the factors Mike discovered for
my user logging in.
further as i just shared this does not give me direct access as I cannot
download or upload items to my dreamhost work space from another shell.
The dreamhost shell, while far less detailed than my personal shared
account at shellworld, contains e-mail programs, browsers, text editors
file conversion tools and the like , comparative to I guess? the Ubuntu
command line, although I am not firm on what Ubuntu is like first hand.
Regardless for my professional needs, I must reach a comparative setup
from my desktop to get tings done.
Thanks, Karen
On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, Jason Shaw wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 3:06 PM Mike via talk <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip>
However, I have what may be an easier solution, one that I should
already have thought of: If you still have working SSH-based shell
access to a different host, you should be able to SSH FROM THERE to
your dreamhost system.
That is, SSH to your other shell account, and instead of running your
email program, run "ssh user@eugene...", and once connected to eugene,
proceed as though you were connected directly.
Such plumbing is often necessary for a variety of reasons. Just make
sure you know where you are. The commands "whoami", and "hostname"
are often useful!
<snip>
This is a great recommendation and can be easily automated. In your
personal ssh config, usually ~/.ssh/config you can add in:
Host *.dreamhost.com
ProxyCommand ssh -q shellworld_host nc %h %p
With this in place, you'll be able to just type 'ssh yourhost.dreamhost.com'
and you'll bounce through shellworld_host (substitiute your actual
shellworld host account) to make it mostly seamless.
-jason
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