Re: Safest way of accessing a home computer from outside?

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 10:08 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Timothy Murphy writes:
> 
> > What is the safest way of allowing access to a home system
> > from a remote computer?
> > I am running Fedora-6 and shorewall.
> > 
> > Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
> 
> Run ssh on a non-default port.
> 
> Turn off passwords.  Use ssh certificates.
> 
There is something wrong with just saying use ssh. One assumes that the
home machines are masqueraded behind a router. It seems to me that one
must configure that all packets arriving at the router address be routed
to a particular home machine address.
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