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firewalls? pah! (Score:2)

by nicholas (3034) <nwc10+useperl@colon.colondot.net> on 2003.12.22 12:48 (#26764) Homepage Journal

-R also creates tunnels

Great for completely subverting any firewalling policy you may be behind. (Not that I am, just that allowing outgoing ssh means that anyone could forward any sort of incoming connections.)

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- Re:firewalls? pah! (Score:2)
  
  by Dom2 (2981)
  
  -R is great. I've used to update machines in our DMZ by pointing them to our internal up2date server over an ssh tunnel of that variety.
  ssh r00lz
  -Dom

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