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<b>Client Configuration</b><br>
The trick to encrypting the password is to make use of ssh's local port
forwarding capability.  It works by creating a sort of proxy on the local host
that listens to some high-numbered port.  Any traffic sent to that port
is encrypted, and forwarded to the configured remote address and port.
(<b>Note</b>: the prior instructions' flaw was that the local port forwarding
request was sent to localhost, rather than to the remote server, which
effectively set up the encrypted 