SSH for PumpHouse

PumpHouse now supports logging in via SSH tunnelling. This means you can log in over a secure (SSH) connection, but you'll need an existing SSH program to do some of the work. Here's how:

Setting Up

• Open and exit the latest version of PumpHouse.
• PumpHouse will create a ".PumpHouse.prefs" file in your home directory.
  For Windows users, that's typically the "WINDOWS" or "Win32" directory.
  For Mac and Unix users, it's typically in your home directory. (Note: on Mac OS X, this file will not be visible in the Finder.)
• Open the .PumpHouse.prefs file in your favorite text editor, and add the following two lines:
  well.host=localhost
well.port=30000
• Save the file and exit your text editor.

Running with SSH Tunnelling

• From a command line, tell your SSH client to forward local port 30000 to remote port 23 on The Well. For OpenSSH, this looks like:
  ssh -N -L 30000:well.com:23 yourname@well.com
• Launch PumpHouse.
• When you are done using PumpHouse, quit the SSH client (typically by pressing control-C in the terminal window you launched it from).

The release version of PumpHouse will let you make this configuration from a "Preferences" dialog.

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