I need to learn to do my research before I ask questions.... I figured it
out.
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Michael Havens <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> hey... look at that.... I got yahoo to work! can I get my windows live id
> to work on empathy?
>
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So then it would be
>>
>> ssh -L localhost:5050:?
>>
>> where would I tunnel empathy too? I mean empathy is on this machine,,,, I
>> just want to make it available to everyone. Should I put an astriks there?
>>
>> Then I suppose for an address to tunnel to I would put the yahoo server
>> address (scsa.msg.yahoo.com). Is this right? Would it look like this:
>>
>> ssh -L localhost:5050:* scsa.msg.yahoo.com
>>
>> I am so grateful for the help:)
>>
>> One further question, which file would I put this line into to make it
>> available to all users? Right now there is only me but who knows in the
>> future!
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Kevin Fries <kfries6@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Port = a port on your local computer to use to represent the foreign
>> service. So in your above case, the 5050 would be your local port and the
>> service would be available as localhost:5050
>>
>>
>>> Host = The machine running the service
>>>
>>> HospPort = port the service is running on on the remote machine.
>>>
>>> Example:
>>> Many people before webmin added encryption would ssh tunnel to the webmin
>>> instance. Lets say you wanted to monitor a machine at 1.2.3.4 that was
>>> running Webmin on its default port of 10000. But you also ran Webmin on
>>> your local machine on its default port of 10000. Both instances were run
>>> only against localhost, for security reasons. You would pick a local port,
>>> say 10001 (can not use 10000 because it is being used by the local
>>> instance), then you would issue your tunnel command as such:
>>>
>>> # ssh -L 10001:127.0.0.1:10000 me@1.2.3.4
>>>
>>> simply stated, this command would create a ssh tunnel for username me, at
>>> 1.2.3.4. Once established, it will create a tunnel to that machine's
>>> localhost instance port 10000, and tunnel it to your local machines port
>>> 10001.
>>>
>>> Now you would be able to access webmin on your machine at localhost:10000
>>> and the remote machines webmin at localhost:10001
>>>
>>> I assume you are trying to do something similar to this, and hopefully
>>> this example will assist you.
>>>
>>> Kevin Fries
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