Re: [cobalt-security] Securing Admin Pages

[Jeffrey April <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My bad...  I should have tested this before sending out the email.  To
connect to the admin pages, you need to connect to
https://localhost:81/.cobalt/sysManage/index.html.  This is do to the way
that the redirection works in Apache.

Jeff

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Mike Fritsch wrote:

> Hi Jeff
>
> Quick question. I followed the guide that you sent to the list although when
> I goto
> http://localhost:81 I get a can't find server error. Did you have any
> problems like
> this?
>
> Mike
>
>
> > With SecureCRT do the following:
> >
> > edit the properties for the ssh session profile that you have created to
> > connect to your server.  Next click on port forwarding and click the add
> > button.  This will open a new window.  Assign a name for the connection
> > (i use admin pages), a local port (81) and the remote port (81).  Finally,
> > click ok, and the port forwarding/ssh tunnel is setup.
> >
> > To use the ssh tunnel, connect to the server with this profile that you
> > just modified, then, using a browser, connect to http://localhost:81/ and
> > you should get your admin pages.
> >
> > This type of setup is great to get access to the admin pages even if you
> > have port 81 blocked with your firewall as I do.  I can ssh to the box,
> > and then forward port 81 to the server to get access to the admin pages.
> >
> > Let me know if you have any more questions, and I will ping you offline.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Steven Young wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> > >
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