[CJG86]

I am trying to setup ssh on a Mac that I have at home and one that I have with me at school. I have looked around but cant find any good documentation on how to setup the computer at home so that it can accept my ssh connection. I also am behing a firewall at school so I need some way to go through an open port such as 80 if any one has any tips or can point me to some good ssh documents or books.

Thanks in advance

[mike one]

For the mac at home:
if you are running OSX go to the sharing control panel (in system preferences) and under "services" check remote login.
That should allow ssh access to your home machine, assuming it has a static ip address and is always on, etc...
as for the firewall issue, i'm not sure how to help you.

to log in to your machine at home, you'll need to use the following command:

ssh YourHomeComputer LoginName@YourHomeComputerIpAddress

[tomfrog]

If you have a dynamic IP address at home, you can use a dynamic DNS service such as dyndns.org, plus a client that runs on your Mac, so you can do something like

ssh -l <yourloginid> <yourname>.homeip.net

for example

It's often the case that the ssh port is open (port 22, IIRC) by default - if not, you will have to set up port forwarding on port 80.