[Gllug] Reversing an SSH connection

[Rich Walker]

Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 03:54:06PM +0100, Rich Walker wrote:
>> However, the point is moot, as the client's site *does not permit
>> outbound SSH*. (Unless, according to their admin, you run an ssh daemon
>> on port 80, at which time it lets that through happily).
>
> Ah, either I didn't understand your original email or else you've just
> found out that they're blocking outbound port 22 which is nasty.  Why
> not run an ssh daemon on port 80 (outside) then?

Just found out.

> Back when I worked with Dan at Red Hat I used to have a shell script
> at home which did:
>
>     while true; do
> 	ssh <various -R options> <a-server-at-redhat-london> \
> 		'while true;do echo .;sleep 60; done'
> 	sleep 60
>     done
>
> (That is hazily remembered - I think the actual ssh-ing in part was a
> mite more complicated than that because RH are very paranoid about
> security).

Not as paranoid as our customer turns out to be.

The computer I wanted to connect to is in a room without any ethernet
ports. Our chap has to go to a computer in a different room to access
the Web. 

B'r.
cheers, Rich.
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