RE: [cobalt-security] Securing Admin Pages

["Steven Young" <steven.young@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Apologies for my last post which was a reply to this original post with no
additional message, my finger got trigger happy...

> A quick way to secure the admin page is to use an ssh tunnel.  With
> SecureCRT, and other ssh client for Windoze, you can connect to port 81
> via an ssh tunnel.  This will encrypt all of the traffic to the admin
> pages.

Could you elaborate on this for me? I have heard of using an ssh tunnel and
I have SecureCRT installed on my Windoze machine, but have no idea of how to
do this. Currently I connect to my RaQ on port 22 for command line
operations, but I do not understand how SecureCRT can be used to securely
tunnel my admin GUI pages. Am I completely off track here?

Thanks,
Steven