Jul 23

Link Remote SSH using Back To My Mac

minimalmac:

onethingwell:

If you have more than one Mac running OS X Lion and you’re signed in to the same iCloud account on all of them, you can SSH between them via iCloud’s IPv6 network.

First, find your Back To My Mac account number by running

dns-sd -E

Then SSH to another machine like so

ssh -2 -6 username@computer-name.[account number].members.btmm.icloud.com

That’s hard to remember and a hassle to type, so might want to add something like the following to your ~/.ssh/config:

Host mac-remote User username HostName computername.123456789.members.btmm.icloud.com AddressFamily inet6 Protocol 2

Which means you can just type

ssh mac-remote

to log in to your other Mac when you’re out and about.

Very handy.

Ninja.

Ninja indeed. Enough so to merit a reblog.

Source: onethingwell

Reblogged 10 months ago from minimalmac

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