On Tuesday 10 May 2005 02:39 am, Dave Howorth wrote:
I have [SuSE] machines at home and at work. I'd like to be able to connect to my machine at work from home and use X-based applications, copy files etc. But from home I have to login to a gateway machine at work and from there I can connect to my own machine. This is done by our administrators for security reasons. The login to the gateway is via ssh.
Why can't you just ssh directly home? Is this so called administrator under the impression that an outbound ssh connection is a threat but a web browser connection is not? And if outbound ssh is a threat (which of course means they don't trust their own employees) why on earth would he allow you to log into a gateway and do it that way? And assuming that you can browse the web from work, why not just make your home ssh server at home run on some convenient port such as 443 which the mighty administrator can't reasonably block as it is used for ssl web browser sessions? -- _____________________________________ John Andersen