[ubuntu-uk] Preventing a hack attempt

[Glen Mehn]

  Yes, you can do it. Basically, you want to set up a "local port" and a 
"remote port". I don't have a windows box in front of me, but it's under 
tunneling somehwere. You can create SSH keys for windows boxes using the 
putty keygen tool.

-g

On 28/08/10 19:46, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
> any way to do that through putty?
>
> On 28 August 2010 18:13, Alan Lord (News) <alanslists at gmail.com 
> <mailto:alanslists at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 28/08/10 17:37, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
>     > If the VNC Server is on the same machine that you are ssh'ing into,
>     > then the command would look as follows:
>     >
>     > ssh -C -L 5900:localhost:5900<user>@<destination_server>  -N&
>
>     We do this to manage some of our customers' servers. We also use
>     private/public key pairs, and configure ssh so so no logins are
>     allowed
>     with passwords.
>
>     Also, I concur with an earlier post and recommend installing
>     denyhosts.
>
>     sudo apt-get install denyhosts
>
>     Very useful against bruteforce attacks.
>
>     Al
>
>
>
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