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Getting Started > > The Basics




Introduction

You've decided to use Safe Passage to securely tunnel your internet traffic. Perhaps you need to access files at your office from your home (or access your home computer from your office). Or, maybe you'd like to prevent other's from limiting your access to the internet. Or, you might like to prevent other's from tracing your internet activity and your location.

To understand more about the server side and what you may need, see the SSH Account help page.

Logging in

Once you have your SSH Server Account simply type in your username and your hostname in the application as follows:





The Port is the port number you are using to connect to the SSH Server. The default port number for SSH is 22. There are reasons you may want to use other ports, especially if you are behind a firewall that is blocking port 22. In that case you can setup OpenSSH to run on a different port (like 443) or find a host that is willing to setup a server to run on these different ports (like Userworld.com.) For Safe Passage trial users, our partners at Userworld.com offer a free-trial SSH account that you can try Safe Passage with.

The first time you login to your SSH account you may be asked to accept the server's host key. Click Yes.





Once you click on Start SSH Tunneling, Safe Passage will switch to a terminal window and the server will ask you to type your password:





Saving your Password

You can also save your password for future use by selecting the options button next the the Username field as follows:




The Status Bar

You are now "tunneling". You can tell that you are tunneling and where you are tunneling to by viewing the status bar:





The number at the lower left hand corner is the IP of the host you are tunneling through. The time is the amount of time you've been tunneling through this host. When it says "Tunneling" on the lower right hand side, then you are currently tunneling and you and your packets are safe.

You can start and stop tunneling as you wish. Simply click on Stop Tunneling while you are tunneling to stop tunneling. This will stop Safe Passage from interacting with your traffic, but you will still be connected to your SSH host. To disconnect from the SSH host, stop tunneling and select Reset Connection


The System Tray

When you click on the "X" at the upper right hand corner of the window, Safe Passage doesn't close, but instead moves to the system tray and continues any connections and tunneling:





Instead, Safe Passage moves to the System Tray...





To reopen Safe Passage simply click on the the Safe Passage tunnel Icon in the system tray.


Exiting Safe Passage To Exit Safe Passage RIGHT CLICK on the title bar:





OR right click on the System Tray Icon...