- In ssh, knowing how to port tunnel with `-L` or `-D` (and occasionally `-R`) is useful, e.g. to access web sites from a remote server.
- In ssh, knowing how to port tunnel with `-L` or `-D` (and occasionally `-R`) is useful, e.g. to access web sites from a remote server.
- It can be useful to make a few optimizations to your ssh configuration; for example, this `~/.ssh/config` contains settings to avoid dropped connections in certain network environments, not require confirmation connecting to new hosts, forward authentication, and use compression (which is helpful with scp over low-bandwidth connections):
- It can be useful to make a few optimizations to your ssh configuration; for example, this `~/.ssh/config` contains settings to avoid dropped connections in certain network environments, and use compression (which is helpful with scp over low-bandwidth connections):
```
```
TCPKeepAlive=yes
TCPKeepAlive=yes
ServerAliveInterval=15
ServerAliveInterval=15
ServerAliveCountMax=6
ServerAliveCountMax=6
StrictHostKeyChecking=no
Compression=yes
Compression=yes
ForwardAgent=yes
```
```
- A few other options relevant to ssh are security sensitive and should be enabled with care, e.g. per subnet or host or in trusted networks: `StrictHostKeyChecking=no`, `ForwardAgent=yes`
- To get the permissions on a file in octal form, which is useful for system configuration but not available in `ls` and easy to bungle, use something like
- To get the permissions on a file in octal form, which is useful for system configuration but not available in `ls` and easy to bungle, use something like