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Originally Posted by live_dont_exist
Fred...can you tell us what exactly you're trying to achieve? If you're only trying to make an encrypted connection to a website say www.abcd.com all you need to do is open a terminal and type in ssh www.abcd.com and enter your username and password to log in.
However it looks like you want something else..so you'll need to be a bit clearer.
Cheers
Arvind |
Huh? What you said doesn't make any sense. You can't "log in" to an SSL-protected website using SSH. Websites use HTTP protocol for transferring data, SSL-protected websites use HTTP tunneled through an SSL session, which is an entirely different thing than SSH.
The OP was pretty clear: He wants to connect to a news server (via NNTP protocol), but through an encrypted tunnel. Apparently the recommended way is using stunnel, which is a program that basically sets up an SSL session and allows you to tunnel data through it.
I'm sorry that I don't know how to configure stunnel for Giganews (I've used stunnel before, but I was following a walk-through and it was for a proprietary protocol used by the company I worked at). Hopefully the topic is more clear, now.
