accessing a remote system

I have got a pIII 450 machine in my home and i want to access it
through the internet and perform the root operations. What should i run
in my remote machine inorder to carry out this operation? Should i run
linux on both machines or can my remote machine be a windows machine
and can i get the administrator privilege in that by accessing
hence.Somebody pls help.

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>I have got a pIII 450 machine in my home and i want to access it
> through the internet and perform the root operations. What should i run
> in my remote machine inorder to carry out this operation? Should i run
> linux on both machines or can my remote machine be a windows machine
> and can i get the administrator privilege in that by accessing
> hence.Somebody pls help.

Use ssh.

The problem is do you have a static IP address?

Randy

To access your linux boxes from windows, checkout putty:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

you'll be logging into that as if you were on the console.

For dynamic addresses, checkout: http://www.aboutdebian.com/dns.htm and
http://www.dyndns.org/

Brett.


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> I have got a pIII 450 machine in my home and i want to access it
> through the internet and perform the root operations. What should i run
> in my remote machine inorder to carry out this operation? Should i run
> linux on both machines or can my remote machine be a windows machine
> and can i get the administrator privilege in that by accessing
> hence.Somebody pls help.
>

Randy McLaughlin wrote:

> The problem is do you have a static IP address?
>

You don't need a static IP. However, you do need to know your current
address. My cable ISP uses dhcp, but it's virtually static and my host
name is static, so I just use that host name and all is well.

Also, if you're using linux for a firewall, you can configure it to send an
e-mail, when the IP address changes. Many firewall/router boxes can be
configured to use a dynamic dns service.

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:04:56 -0500, James Knott <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Randy McLaughlin wrote:
>
> Also, if you're using linux for a firewall, you can configure it to send an
> e-mail, when the IP address changes. Many firewall/router boxes can be
> configured to use a dynamic dns service.

I use no-ip.com for dynamic DNS and run its Unix update client from
/etc/ppp/ip-up (which automatically runs when my Linux pppoe gets an IP).

Of course for ssh, you need port 22 open in your firewall (and forwarded
if behind some other router). I require keys only (so password crack
attempts would be futile). PuTTY is a Windows ssh client (which can
import OpenSSH keys).