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Dustin has written up a post on how to get a shell on a remote server through SSH, even if you do not have access to SSH on that server.  It uses PHP and some uploaded files to connect to an SSH server that you do have access to, and sets up a tunnel with a shell on it.  I can see this being useful for people on shared hosting servers that don’t offer SSH normally.  I’ll have to check 1&1’s ToS to see if I am allowed to.  I doubt I can, since they do offer SSH access at a higher rate.

Of course, this could easily be a huge security risk if you use it wrong, so be careful.

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