Introduction to SSH tunnels

(Please note this post was originally published in the Spanish version of Security Art Work last 19th Jul 2012)

All of us have at some time found that the service we wanted to access is on a computer unreachable from our network or other similar problems. If we have SSH access we can easily solve problems like this using SSH tunnels.

We propose a first scenario, in which we have a database server protected by a firewall that prevents us directly interact with the database but that can be accessed by SSH (assuming MySQL, which uses port 3306).

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