remote administration

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:53:04PM +0200, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> I need something I can install so I can log into their machine from
> mine and do any administrator tasks we can't work out over the phone.
> Could someone tell me what to use? I'm new to this part of Ubuntu.

Are you familiar with ssh? ssh is really the canonical tool
for this sort of thing. Since you can forward X connections
over ssh, you can do all the graphical stuff you need this
way as well.

I remotely administer lots of machines that sit behind a
firewall at work. Normally for this sort of thing, one uses
a VPN. Me, I don't need it: I can just ssh into a gateway
machine, then use ssh from there. For instance,

ssh -tX gateway ssh -tX host1 ssh -tX host2

will connect to host2 by way of host1 and 'gateway'. The
data gets forwarded from host2 to host1, from host1 to
gateway, then back to me. And it's encrypted every step of
the way.

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