Re: Secure Tunneling to Linux

"pschellenbach" wrote
PUTTY is another SSH client that supports tunneling and is free. You
can use the PLINK command to automate the tunnel setup, similar to the
Linux ssh command line.

On the server side for Windows hosts, which do not have built-in sshd
support, an idea that I have been toying with is to run a stripped
down Linux virtual machine to act as the ssh server, then forward
connections to the local Windows machine hosting the VM.
Yeah, but putty older versions lack that tunneling feature. And dunno if
any creaky old ssh servers still run mere version 1 of the ssh protocol,
but tunneling relies on this feature of ssh version 2.

At our shop we'd do as you proposed, but for clients out in the field we
install free download Cygwin that emulates linux on top of windows. Not
a very detailed emulation, but good enough to offer an ssh server, and you
can, with a little effort, use the linux commands in windows command shells.
So I can get a basic program of d3 to shell-out to windows to run a few
favorite linux data-massaging commands instead of writing proper substitutes
in basic... Though admittedly Cygwin can be cranky to install. I dread
the day our most physically-distant client asks us how they can reinstall it
after some massive server meltdown and whole-box replacement...



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