helping remote users

[cstolley at hushmail.com]

Perhaps you simply want to use ssh remote port forwarding. In your 
scenario, the remote user could ssh to your machine like so:

ssh -R5555:localhost:22 jasonsbox.domain.com

This causes localhost:22 on the remote user's machine to be 
forwarded to yours. Once he connected, you could connect back to 
his machine by connecting to localhost on port 5555, like so:

ssh -p 5555 localhost

You could also run vncviewer in listener mode on your machine. 
However, I would personally have misgivings about exposing that to 
the public net without, at a minimum, some sort of firewall 
restrictions.

Colin

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:20:21 -0500 Jason Staudenmayer 
<jasons at adventureaquarium.com> wrote:
>Sorry if this might be a newbish question but I can't figure it 
>out. I have a user that is just starting to use Linux/RedHat and 
>I'm trying to help as much I can. As most of you know seeing the 
>screen is the best bet to help. Next best is access to the system. 
>What I'd like to do is open a port on my firewall that he can 
>connect to and then I can connect back to his system (kinda like 
>ssh forward but reverse). I had done this a few years ago when I 
>had somebody helping me I just can't find what command he had me 
>use. Anybody know of something like this?
>
>TIA
>
>Jason
>
>
>
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