Reverse SSH?

[spawn968]

I'm going on vacation to Atlanta for a week, and need to stay in contact with my computer. I finally convinced my dad to open the ssh port, but I started to think: Would there be another way? I also have an ssh account at the local university, and I was wondering if there is a way to ssh to the university from my computer, keeping the connection open while I left, and then ssh'd to the university from Atlanta and travel from the university down to my computer. I would assume it's possible, but I'm wondering if someone has already done it or any clues on how it would have to happen.

[endoalpha]

Not likely. Any secure system will automatically disconnect a ssh session after a period of inactivity.

[JThundley]

What's the period of inactivity? I leave mine on all night long...

I think you should stick to some sneakier ssh tactics: Run the ssh daemon on another port. Edit the conf file so that only you can log in. It's really very secure :)