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Linux Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   Linux Administration Cookbook Insightful recipes to work with system administration tasks on Linux

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789342529
Length 826 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction and Environment Setup 2. Remote Administration with SSH FREE CHAPTER 3. Networking and Firewalls 4. Services and Daemons 5. Hardware and Disks 6. Security, Updating, and Package Management 7. Monitoring and Logging 8. Permissions, SELinux, and AppArmor 9. Containers and Virtualization 10. Git, Configuration Management, and Infrastructure as Code 11. Web Servers, Databases, and Mail Servers 12. Troubleshooting and Workplace Diplomacy 13. BSDs, Solaris, Windows, IaaS and PaaS, and DevOps 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using remote forwarding

In the previous section, we looked at the ability to forward local connection attempts to a remote machine.

In this section, we're going to look at something very similar: remote forwarding.

With remote forwarding, connection attempts made to a specified address and port on a remote machine are passed back through the SSH tunnel you've set up, and are processed on the local machine (your client).

Start on centos1.

Before we start it's worth noting that remote forwarding is a great way to punch holes out of networks, which means that it can also be a nightmare for security professionals charged with maintaining a network. With great power comes great etc.

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Linux Administration Cookbook
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Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781789342529
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