ssh sessions when port 22 is locked down?

namespan — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:05:35 -0800

I sometimes visit a network where port 22 is locked down. I'd like to be able to initiate ssh sessions from this site. Is there any tunneling or other magic I can invoke to reach this goal, or any other solution short of badgering the admins? (I'm also not sure now to find out what other ports are open. I know 21,80, and 443 are, because I can do normal web and ftp stuff, but other than manually trying each port with telnet, I'm not sure how to check...)

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dead_ — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:41:02 -0800

I want to setup an SSH tunnel on OSX, but... So I'm relaitvely ignorant of this type of thing. But here's the situation. I'm going to be accessing the Internet almost exclusively from coffee shops, university wifi networks and the like, so from what I understand the best way for me to make sure no one is snooping on the websites I'm browsing is to run an SSH tunnel.

I've googled it, yet I'm still a bit confused how to get things going. My machine is a Powerbook, and since I don't know of a secured remote host that I can SSH to, I was planning on setting up another machine (an older iMac) at a friend's house and tunneling through that.

Problem is I don't know how to properly setup the host machine, or the client machine. Can you help me? (Again, both machines will be running OSX.) Is this worth the trouble? Is it much trouble? Please walk me through this, most of the how-to pages I've looked at have left me scratching my head. Bonus points for explaining how to tunnel my AIM connection.

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