On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 03:10:29PM +0000, Sam Halliday wrote:
| Cristian Gutierrez wrote:
| > Sam Halliday writes:
[ftp/http is bandwidth limited on university network, ssh isn't limited]
| > May be they can use an external proxy via ssh. Say, they have ssh
| > access to host X where X is outside their university network and can
| > use a proxy on Y:8000 (Y could be X itself). Now they can forward
| > their localhost:8000 to Y:8000 ssh'ing through X, and set APT to use
| > localhost:8000 as a proxy.
|
| unfortunately thats sounds like the only available option, as non
| ftp/http source do not seem to exist. the problem is that i do not know
| anyone external to the network, with root access to a box, willing to
| give up bandwidth and ports for the cause :-/. thanks anyway though...
| ill ask around.
You don't need root access on the remote machine to do ssh port
forwarding. (you would only need root access if you were
"RemoteForwarding" a port <1024)
-D
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