An Excruciatingly Detailed Guide to SSH
The article provides a detailed guide on using SSH, focusing on practical applications of local and remote port forwarding. It breaks down complex commands and explains their components for better understanding. The author emphasizes hands-on experience as key to mastering these concepts.
- ▪SSH is a powerful tool for network traversal and security.
- ▪Local port forwarding allows access to remote services through a local port.
- ▪Remote port forwarding enables access to internal services from an external machine.
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An Excruciatingly Detailed Guide To SSH (But Only The Things I Actually Find Useful) Oh you like SSH? Name every flag. Published: 2023-08-22 ~16 min read Welcome We’ve all seen these great diagrams of how SSH port forwarding works but if your brain is anything like mine, these diagrams leave you with a lot of unanswered questions. If you’re on a red team, understanding how to traverse a network better than the people who designed it gives you immense power to do evil things. SSH is such a powerful tool but sometimes the syntax and other concepts can get in the way of us accomplishing our goals. In an effort to do more evil things in a timely fashion I’ve put together a massive list of SSH things that I find useful. You can read it too, but if I’m being honest, this is mostly for me.
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