[107919] in Cypherpunks
Re: your mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mgraffam@idsi.net)
Thu Jan 28 12:32:19 1999
From: mgraffam@idsi.net
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:00:31 -0500 (EST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199901281547.QAA32166@replay.com>
Reply-To: mgraffam@idsi.net
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Anonymous wrote:
> they have set up a firewall that is so restrictive
> that i can only use http protocol on port 80.
Interesting.
> https is denied! what i need/want to do is to access
> one of my UNIX shell accounts from work, so i can do
> shit like check mail, etc...
Well, depending on what sort of boxes you have control over .. you could
set up a port bouncer on some machine's port 80 that bounces you from
80 to 23 for telnet-in, or something like that.. then you can just
telnet to that machine on 80, which bounces you to 23.
The firewall should let the connection to port 80 through, I'd think..
unless it actually monitors the traffic on that port to verify that it
is an http session! ..
If you don't have root on a box so that you can set up a bouncer, I'm
afraid that it looks like you are hosed.
To check your mail on a box that you can't get to, try the Dejanews mail
accounts, they let you POP mail from other machines.. not the greatest
solution, and not particularly secure, but you can read your mail (and
so can everyone else :)
Michael J. Graffam (mgraffam@idsi.net)
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Ben Franklin, ~1784
