[ale] ssh -R (was Re: Have I been hacked?)

[Sean C. McCord]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:53:13AM -0500, Sean C. McCord wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:53:54AM -0500, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> > What is port 1101 in this configuration?
> 
> An arbitrary TCP port on your local box which will be tunneled through the SSH
> connection to port 22 on 192.168.122.132.

I should also note that, although it is arbitrarily numbered, there are
two notable restrictions:
- It must not be used by another service on the same interface which it
  binds to (localhost).
- It must be a port above 1000 (i.e., insecure) if you are not root.

> Don't be confused by the 5555, since that is unique to Ed's setup.  That
> is simply the SSH port on 192.168.1.46 which is open to the local box.
> 
>  
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Ed
> > Cashin
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:41 AM
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: Re: [ale] ssh -R (was Re: Have I been hacked?)
> > 
> > I'm mainly interested in ssh-ing into virtual machines running
> > Linux on a Mac mini running VMware Fusion, at this time.
> > 
> > Now that I can do that (Thanks, Chris!), I wanted to share the
> > magic command.
> > 
> > Background info:
> > 
> >   The office network is 192.168.1.0/24.
> > 
> >   My workstation's IP on the office network is 192.168.1.46.
> >   Its name is "meili".
> > 
> >   Meili's ssh daemon is listening on a non-standard port, 5555.
> > 
> >   The virtual machine is running CentOS, and VMware Fusion's
> >   NAT has assigned it the address 192.168.122.132.  (The
> >   192.168.122.132/24 network is a virtual network existing inside
> >   of the Mac mini.)  The VM's name is "burke".
> > 
> > The mac mini's IP on the office network doesn't figure into the
> > command at all, so I won't mention it.
> > 
> > At a shell prompt on burke, as ecashin, I run,
> > 
> >   ssh -p 5555 -v -N -T -R 1101:192.168.122.132:22 192.168.1.46
> > 
> > ... or in English,
> > 
> >   ssh to meili's port 5555 and set up a tunnel from meili's
> >   localhost port 1101 to burke's port 22.
> > 
> > Back at my workstation meili, I can ssh into burke as user
> > ecashin via,
> > 
> >   ssh -p 1101 127.0.0.1
> > 
> > -- 
> >   Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net>
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