On 17 Dec, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <200012180329.TAA13693@spammie.svbug.com> opentrax@email.com writes:
> : How is TCP tunneling useful?
> 
> It allows you to have a secure connection between two endpoints on the
> internet that might not otherwise be able to connect.  I use it to
> grab my pop mail from a heavily firewalled server when I'm on the
> road.  Just crank up my ssh session to the main machine (with a tunnel
> from port 119 on the local machine to port 119 on mail.foo.ba), then
> tell my pop client to go to localhost instead of mail.foo.ba.  ssh can
> be configured to disallow connections to that port from outside of my
> machine, so I have a high degree of confidence that no one else is
> using that connection if I'm the only one on the machine.
> 
Are you suggesting that under certain conditions - your
degree of confidence might be lower. If so, can you name some of
those conditions?


> For protocols like pop where you have plain text passwords, this sort
> of automatic armoring is a big win until such time as real
> authentication for pop can be implemented and standardized.
> 
I've gotten this from a few people. That is they state that
SSH is kind of a patch, until something better comes along.
Do you feel that way also?
				Jessem.