On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 20:50 +0100, Beso wrote: > 2009/2/2 pan user <p...@mll.nosnoop.com>: > > On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 19:27 +0000, Duncan wrote: > >> "m...@gmail.com" > >> <mistericec...@gmail.com> posted > >> 49872cfa.9030...@gmail.com, excerpted below, on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:27:22 > >> +0100: > >> > >> > Well, if you are doing it this way, you never use SSL. To use ssl with > >> > pan, you have to use stunnel. > >> > >> stunnel! /That's/ the app that I've seen people mentioning! Thanks. I > >> had forgotten the name, thus deliberately avoided mentioning it in my > >> initial explanation. > >> > > > > There is also Putty, which makes SSH a bit easier. > > > for what i know putty is useful as a secure alternative to telnet and > similar, because it provides direct ssh connection to > an enabled ssh server. ssl instead is used for a transparent ssl > encoding of services. it can be used also for other types of traffic, > like emails or http browsing. it usually has default setting for a > number of different services but for what i know > nntp ssl needs to be configured. you set the secure socket redirection > with stunnel on a loopback device port and use > pan authentication over it. for pan the server would be the loopback > device one, while stunnel will take care of tunneling > the traffic to the end provider.
I route all my connections through ssh tunnels, e-mail, http, nntp by way of port forwarding. Either way, stunnel or ssh tunnel, will work, boils down to personal likes. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
