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[Robert L. Harris]

Any chance you can ssh to a home machine?  That's what I do.  Works
well, keeps any IRC chatter off the network, doesn't expose the company
to any attacks from kiddies, etc.


Thus spake Jim Lynch (jwl at sgi.com):

> It doesn't work out of the box or I wouldn't have asked.  
> 
> Not a chance of the admins granting exceptions.  They are droids 'just
> doing their job' and not risking it.  With 25% reductions in staff each
> quarter, no one is going to give up anything.  8(  I may not have to
> worry about it come the end of the quarter.  8)
> 
> Jim.
> 
> Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> > 
> > On Wednesday 03 September 2003 08:58, Jim Lynch wrote:
> > > I'm behind a firewall.  Anyone know how to configure irc to work?  Or is
> > > it not possible?
> > 
> > Who controls the firewall? Many admins block the IRC default port range to
> > prevent IRC based trojans (which are rather common) from phoning home.
> > Generally, exceptions can be made for savvy users on a per machine basis.
> > 
> > --
> > Jonathan Rickman
> > X Corps Security
> > http://www.xcorps.net
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