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Hey all.

I would like to know the following:

1) are we allowed to set up an ssh server for the purpose of bypassing certain "restrictions" at school

2) can this server listen on a common port such as 80 or 443?

3) how exactly would i install this server on my shell account here, if it is so allowed...

Help is much appreciated

~Bandit

BanditZA wrote:Hey all.

I would like to know the following:

1) are we allowed to set up an ssh server for the purpose of bypassing certain "restrictions" at school

2) can this server listen on a common port such as 80 or 443?

3) how exactly would i install this server on my shell account here, if it is so allowed...

Help is much appreciated

~Bandit

I do this myself. What you need to do is edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and add "Port 443" or change the current one. I also recommend going with only key-auth, but I'm a security freak.

So, am i to undesrstand that i must do the following:

1) edit the above config file to port 443
2) in the PuTTy tunnel options, i should add infinity.phoenix-network.org:443
3) just connect and surf, ftp etc as usual?

Thanks for the help...

~Bandit

**edit**: I think i might be misunderstood...am i able to use THIS shell to do what my first post stated? If so, how?

BanditZA wrote:1) are we allowed to set up an ssh server for the purpose of bypassing certain "restrictions" at school

No, you may not set up your own SSH server however you may make use of our one in its current form.

2) can this server listen on a common port such as 80 or 443?

No it cannot, those ports are used for HTTP and HTTP/SSL, both of which we make use of here.

This issue has already be discussed in http://forums.phoenix-hosting.org/viewtopic.php?t=1734.

Regards
Thomas

thanks