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What Is The Coolest Thing I Can Do With SSH?
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Avatar Image   Started by holotone holotone has 44,565 Grupie Points 1 year ago         Comments Add a comment

I'm getting ready to install OpenSSH on my home server so that I can have access to my computer from work - I'm fairly familiar with the basics, but I'd like to hear your suggestions for the most interesting and useful SSH "tricks" all you crazy geeks know of.

What's the best / coolest / most interesting use of my very own SSH server? Enlighten me!

Tags: bash, foss, hobbies, linux, oss, shell, ssh, technology

 
       
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Tunnelling

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You can re-route a port from a program that would not normally travel over the internet to another computer, creating a pseudo vpn connection.

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Scare your roomates

Hide some small speakers through out your house. Then while you are not there, but they are, play some creepy mp3's.... [show more]

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FUSE / sshfs

http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html "This is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol. Since most SSH ser... [show more]

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Built in socks-proxy

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secure X

Run X applications remotely and securely.

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This topic was started by holotone holotone has 44,565 Grupie Points on December 7th, 2006. 16 grupies have voted on one or more of the 6 answers.

Tags: bash, foss, hobbies, linux, oss, shell, ssh, technology

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