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i often go wireless on campus with my 12" powerbook. most every protocol is blocked except for http, https, and ssh.
as a result i have a rather unique set-up that requires me to establish two SSH tunnels -- to my POP3 and SMTP server -- in order to download my mail.
it's getting to be a bit of a pain. i copy the (lengthy) commands from a textedit document into a terminal window and execute them from there.
i'm wondering if anyone has found an easier way to do this. i would prefer something graphical or simple that would remember my root password and the password for the account on my mail server. "one click" ssh tunnelling in other words.
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You could set up a shell alias to your long commands (although it would be unwise to hardcode passwords into a file on disk).
There is also a GUI SSH tunneling program recently released for Mac OS X. I can't remember the name of it, but i saw it on versiontracker the other day.
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I don't see why you need your root password to do ssh tunneling... maybe I'm missing something. Adding your ssh key in .ssh/known_hosts will allow you to ssh to the remote host without entering your password.
Then, you just have to copy your ssh command to establish the tunnel in a .command file, and double click on it from the finder.
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under OS X it seems that ports 21 and 110 are "privileged," maybe i'm missing something too, but i'm fairly certain the system has control of these by default.
i like your suggestion, that's exactly the kind of thing i'm trying to achieve. i'll see what I can do...
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Originally posted by fldsfslmn:
as a result i have a rather unique set-up that requires me to establish two SSH tunnels -- to my POP3 and SMTP server -- in order to download my mail.
it's getting to be a bit of a pain. i copy the (lengthy) commands from a textedit document into a terminal window and execute them from there.
i'm wondering if anyone has found an easier way to do this.
Try fugu - it's a good GUI sFTP/scp Client and can establish ssh tunnels (and has a good how to in it's help file).
http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/
(and no - there is no need for a root password to crate a ssh tunnel)
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Originally posted by fldsfslmn:
under OS X it seems that ports 21 and 110 are "privileged," maybe i'm missing something too, but i'm fairly certain the system has control of these by default.
Port 21 is the standard ftp port.
Port 22 is the standard ssh port.
Port 110 is used by POP.
If you use a port to tunnel ssh, better use some very high port numbers.
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Originally posted by fldsfslmn:
under OS X it seems that ports 21 and 110 are "privileged," maybe i'm missing something too, but i'm fairly certain the system has control of these by default.
Actually, you do not need the local ports to match the real ports on the remote server.
Just use unprivileged ports, and set them accordingly in Mail.app's preferences...
That way, you don't need to be root.
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