Re: Netcat (NC) Secure Remote Connections via authenication

[Devdas Bhagat <devdas () dvb homelinux org>]

On 27/06/03 18:01 -0500, Dagmar d'Surreal wrote:
<snip>
> > I have a requirement were I need to connect to a remote machine and
> > get a command prompt. We all know how to do this via netcat by
> > setting up a listening port. My concern is that I do not want to
> > leave the port open for anyone to connect.
>
> Your concern is warranted.  It's never a good idea to just leave ports
> open that blindly accept commands from anyone around the globe, no
> matter how "secret" the port number used may be.
Cryptcat may be useful as well.

<snip> 
> *can* be run on a Win32 machine, which would solve your problem nicely
> once you find a consultant able to build it for you using Cygwin.  Of
Prebuilt packages are available online. You can just download and
install those.

Devdas Bhagat

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