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Date:      Tue, 19 Feb 2002 20:08:09 -0500 (EST)
From:      Matt Piechota <piechota@argolis.org>
To:        andy@sambolian.net.nz
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SSH proxy
Message-ID:  <20020219200558.F710-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org>
In-Reply-To: <1014164431.3c72ebcff08c3@webmail.sambolian.net.nz>

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On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 andy@sambolian.net.nz wrote:

> I have a fbsd gateway at home through which I share our cable modem with my
> flatmates.  They have their own boxes on the lan and ssh to them from work.  At
> the moment we log into the gateway and from there ssh to the box we want.  I
> have made a shell script to automate this, and have set it as the default shell
> for our accounts on the gateway.  It all works well but I would like to know if
> there is a better way and also if there is a security rish with the way I have
> done it now.  Here is the script....

If you're allowed out of work on multiple ports, you could always forward
a series of ports to the individual machines.  That way you miss the
middle box.  Then all you have to do is ssh -pPORT cable_gateway to get to
the different machines.

-- 
Matt Piechota


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