Re: SSH command line syntax - port redirection

Hi Alex,

I do not have access to my SSH computers this week, so I am writing
this by memory.

> ssh -p 22 -L 5900:127.0.0.1:5900 -l <username> <Dad's IP address>

I use PuTTY to make my SSH sessions.  Comparing what I do in PuTTY to
what you are doing on the command line, I speculate that the command
should be this :

 ssh -p 22 -L 5901:<Dad's IP address>:5900 -l <username> <Dad's IP address>

Then when you use VNC, use 127.0.0.1:1.  The port 1 at the end of that
address equals 5901 - 5900.

> I get the familiar SSH login screen and can authenticate and work on
> the command line. At the point of authentication I get an error
> message that the shell could not change to /home/username due to
> "access denied". I've checked the permissions on my profile directory
> and my user account has Full Control, as has the System special
> context. I don't know if this is related to my problem, or if it's
> merely a minor annoyance.

Are you sure that the SSH's passwd file is up to date?  Run mkpasswd
and mkgroup.  Also, SSH has two settings in Windows Start menu, a
server configuration and a user configuration.

> Conversely, on Dad's machine, VNC is listening on TCP port 5900 and so
> is sshd. If I exit from the SSH console, sshd stops listening to port
> 5900. I'm mystified why two different applications are listening on
> the same TCP port. I was under the distinct impression only one
> application could use a given port at a time. I don't know if this is
> relevant.

That does not look right to me.  One of them should be 5800.

 / Louis

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