Hi All,

I have a mandriva box at home but my work does not allow port 22 access, they only allow 80. Is there anything I can install on my box that will allow me to have a "web shell" access?

Anyone tried anything?

Thanks guys
Smurff

You can set ssh to monitor port 80?

Hi,

I guess its my box I can do what I like. Im not that experienced but I can google and read

Whats your idea?

Thanks

Most corporate networks stop desktop machines from making outward connections on anything other than 80 and 443 (to allow for HTTP and HTTP over SSL).

What you can do is set up an SSH server on you home machine and get it to listen on port 443. An SSH connections looks very similar to an SSL connections

I can't give you exact details as I'm not familiar with Mandriva. But you want something like;

1) At home install an SSH server (perhaps openssh-server).

2) Edit the servers config file and change the line

to

While you're here change the line

to

Always best to be safe. Now restart the ssh server (or the machine if you prefer)

3) If you have a router or firewall at home, make sure port forwarding is on and working for port 443.

4) Stick putty on your work machine (I'm assuming you're stuck with windows)

5) In the settings for putty, go to the proxy tab and add the name and port number of your work proxy. Change the proxy type to HTTP.

Now in the session information use you home IP, port 443 and protocol ssh. You should be able to make a connection back to your home machine.

Hope that works for you.

Thanks. I will give it a try. My only thought is that my work use websense as a proxy. So I am not sure of the impact.

Thanks again

So does mine