Using SSH

Patrick Ethier pat at SECUREOPS.COM
Mon Jan 31 10:25:03 EST 2000


Hi,

 I use SSH from my windows NT box all the time. I'm currently using
SecureCRT 3.something but I've heard that Datafellows makes a nice SSH
client also. Here are the URLS:

SecureCRT - http://www.vandyke.com
Datafellows- http://www.datafellows.com

 I know SSH can be used as a tunnel to create a virtual private network.
>From what I hear it is also pretty secure. But, if you only need to grant
access to one single computer you might as well just give them a shell
account on that machine and then let network traffic through TCP port 22
from those users to your DB box(I'm assuming you have a firewall set up
somewhere to filter traffic flow). SSH would be exactly like telnet in this
respect except that all the typing is encrypted and nobody can tell what is
going on between the host and the client. SSH can do funky things like RSA
authentication which is nice. Read up on it. In linux, do "man ssh" and "man
sshd".


Good luck,

____________________
Patrick Ethier
patrick at secureops.com

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: S Ramakrishnan [mailto:rk_ at MAILCITY.COM]
> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 9:26 PM
> To: VPN at SECURITYFOCUS.COM
> Subject: Using SSH
>
>
> Hello...
>
> I would like to use SSH to grant access to a small set of
> users to a database server.
> While most of these users use a Linux
> box, some use Windows NT.
>
> Can SSH be used on an NT box?
> Are there sample blusprints to
> get up and started on SSH based
> access control schemes?
>
> What underlying security protocol is
> SSH based on?
>
> Any other information (its implementation)
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks !
>
> -r
>
>
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