Safest way of accessing a home computer from outside?

[William Hooper]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 10:08 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>
>> Timothy Murphy writes:
>>
>>
>>> What is the safest way of allowing access to a home system
>>> from a remote computer? I am running Fedora-6 and shorewall.
>>>
>>>
>>> Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
>>>
>>
>> Run ssh on a non-default port.
>>
>>
>> Turn off passwords.  Use ssh certificates.
>>
>>
> There is something wrong with just saying use ssh. One assumes that the
> home machines are masqueraded behind a router.

Router or no router, it doesn't matter.  You just need to open a port for
SSH in the firewall if there is no router.  If there is a router, you just
need to configure one port to forward to your SSH server.

> It seems to me that one must
> configure that all packets arriving at the router address be routed to a
> particular home machine address.

Why?  SSH only needs one port.


-- 
William Hooper