ir0b0t's Journal: Secure Shell

Secure shell is up and running today.

Port forwarding is set up from the dsl modem that acts as a router for the office.

The ssh service also had to be set up through the firewall too. We're using Firestarter 1.0.3.

Firestarter

[Philip K Dickhead]

Used it first time last week. Simpler to get a setup that amateurs can maintain than Shorewall! Even with webmin.

There are some tricks with getting it to add additional chans - such as maintaining outbound IPSec/IKE traffic. You can add these to a user_pre file, under /etc/firestarter/

There's no GUI for this, but I found that I ended up editing the conf files by hand, after seeing the examples started by the GUI. My little Debian box (Ubuntu Breezy) runs on a 200MHz Winchip (Pentium clone). I can load

Re:Firestarter

[ir0b0t]

What's the command line syntax to ssh into a machine and then copy a file there back onto the other machine?