Since 23 is telnet, this would create a secure telnet session through an SSH tunnel. This can be used to wrap any number of insecure TCP protocols such as SMTP, POP3, FTP, etc.

Well, I got it to work.<br><br>SSH creates a secure tunnel from my user's desktop to my Linux machine. WinVNC does a reverse connect to XtightVNCviewer which is sitting in listen mode on my Linux box.

For almost all HPC users, your <username> is your W&M username. Here is an example with <username> = ejwalt making an ssh connection to the HPC front-end with <hostname> = bora.sciclone.wm.edu : This ...