numbersix

I tried to ssh into my server the other day from behind a very restrictive firewall to read my mail. I found that it wouldn't allow outgoing connections to the standard ssh port (22).

Back at home later I started thinking about installing a web mail program on the server to get around such situations, but eventually solved the problem by doing something much simpler, I configured ssh to listen to more than one port, the second port is a much more commonly allowed port like 80 or 443.

You can do this by configuring multiple Port directives in sshd_config. Don't forget to HUP the ssh daemon once you've done this for the changes to take effect.

“I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” (Stephen F. Roberts)

vim highlights matching brackets which is nice until it starts becoming a pain. This in your .vimrc will turn it off:

let g:loaded_matchparen= 1

From here : http://groups.google.com/group/comp.editors/browse_thread/thread/42daad5f97aa6f13/9e140069098c7560?lnk=raot

You can still bounce between the matching brackets by pressing %.