AziTheGreat
23 Dec 2004, 11:25 PM
If you're like me, you love remote access to Trillian but you aren't wild about all this unencrypted traffic between IM Everywhere and the client computer.
Fun trick, three steps; you'll need a tiny bit of understanding of Linux. Oh, and you'll need an SSH client at the remote system, so this doesn't work for cellular phone access.
[list=1] Install Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/), with the Lynx package and the OpenSSH package.
Configure OpenSSH (documentation should come with the package or something). You should now be able to log into your computer remotely using any old SSH client.
Edit your lynx.cfg file; specifically, change STARTFILE to http://localhost:8080/ (or whatever port your IM everywhere is set to)[/list=1]
Now whenever you want to securely access Trillian, simply use a SSH client to connect to your system, then run lynx. Communication over SSH is encrypted, and communication between Lynx and IM Everywhere is accomplished locally.
OpenSSH also includes a secure FTP server that you can access with FileZilla or any other SFTP client, giving you secure remote access to the contents of your hard drive. Just make sure you have a strong password (http://www.winguides.com/security/password.php) to keep evil people out. Then again if you're like me and unencrypted traffic keeps you awake at night, you prolly have that taken care of already.
Have fun!
- Joey
Fun trick, three steps; you'll need a tiny bit of understanding of Linux. Oh, and you'll need an SSH client at the remote system, so this doesn't work for cellular phone access.
[list=1] Install Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/), with the Lynx package and the OpenSSH package.
Configure OpenSSH (documentation should come with the package or something). You should now be able to log into your computer remotely using any old SSH client.
Edit your lynx.cfg file; specifically, change STARTFILE to http://localhost:8080/ (or whatever port your IM everywhere is set to)[/list=1]
Now whenever you want to securely access Trillian, simply use a SSH client to connect to your system, then run lynx. Communication over SSH is encrypted, and communication between Lynx and IM Everywhere is accomplished locally.
OpenSSH also includes a secure FTP server that you can access with FileZilla or any other SFTP client, giving you secure remote access to the contents of your hard drive. Just make sure you have a strong password (http://www.winguides.com/security/password.php) to keep evil people out. Then again if you're like me and unencrypted traffic keeps you awake at night, you prolly have that taken care of already.
Have fun!
- Joey