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On Friday 23 January 2009 22:54:24 Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> > A friend once mentioned on a forum that he'd managed to set up static |
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> > libwrap rules in hosts.allow|deny for addresses that don't change and |
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> > additionally port-knocking for himself to open up port 22 for a few |
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> > minutes. I don't recall how he did this, only that he claimed to have |
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> > done it. |
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> I've never tried it but I have always liked the idea. I connect to |
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> sshd from linux (my laptop), windows (my work desktop) and symbian (my |
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> phone). |
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> knockd and the knocking client should be no problem for linux & |
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> windows, but for my phone I'd probably have to make one myself. Is it |
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> as simple as making a connection to a specific sequence of ports with |
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> specific timing? I could probably do that easily in python. Sounds |
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> like a project for this weekend. :) |
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I'm no expert but AFAIK that is the general idea |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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