[ale] Cracked many Linux systems

Bob's ALE Mail transam at cavu.com
Wed Mar 28 15:30:06 EST 2001


> On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:16:40PM -0500, Bob's ALE Mail wrote:
> > The alternative is ssh and its associated programs, scp and sftp.  Another
> > alternative is to put the network that needs NFS behind a VPN with only the
> > associated systems behind said VPN.

> Is anyone aware of a way to have a semi-transparent filesystem over
> SSH?  ie:  machineA can ssh to machineB via RSA key authentication.
> I want to have a filesystem on machineA that is actually going
> through the ssh connection to a directory on machineB, without
> weaking machineB's security.

Sure.  Run your semi-transparent file system over a VPN.  An easy way
to create a VPN is to run PPP on top of SSH.  This is explained in my
book.

> Any thoughts?
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Bob
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