[PLUG] Configuring sshd and clients to access two different networks

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Sat Oct 28 19:01:47 UTC 2017


I don't have time to help you, but, I'll suggest that you just say
what it is you are trying to accomplish and what isn't working so that
others can help you converge more quickly on a solution.  I think from
your multiple paragraphs, you are making it harder than it needs to
be.

-- 
Russell Senior
russell at personaltelco.net

On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>    Always something new to learn, and my web search for 'configuring ssh port
> and authentication on different networks' produced hits for Cisco routers,
> putty, and basic one-network connections. Here's my situation; many of you
> can teach me how to accesss both my own network from outside the office and
> my new web site host's network from here.
>
>    Here, /etc/ssh/sshd_config uses a port number different from 22 and
> publickey authentication using a passphrase.
>
>    NearlyFreeSpeech's ssh_host uses port 22 and password authentication.
>
>    man ssh suggests that I can use the option -L to bind the local port to
> the remote port and get me to the correct destination. Is this correct? And
> how do I specify the bind_address? Is that '.' to represent the host on
> which I'm logged in? Or, do I use '-W' and specify the nfs.net host and port
> 22?
>
>    Do I also use the -A option ('Enables forwarding of the authentication
> agent connection. This can also be specified on a per-host basis in a
> configuration file.') If so how do I do this? I understand that I can set up
> publickey authentication for my hosted web site. Would this be the most
> pragmatic approach?
>
>    I want to get my web site files uploaded to the new host this weekend so
> the IP address has time to propagate across all DNS servers by Monday.
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>
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