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I want my SSH. How to setup SSH access to your computer.

So, what do you have to do to be able to enjoy wonders of SSH Tunnels? Not that much.  First of all, you need to enable remote login on the box you are going to use as SSH server. In System Preferences go to Sharing and then make sure that check box next to Remote Login is checked.
Setup remote login

If this box directly connected to the internet (which is most likely to happen in case of your home computer), you are done.  If your box is on private network behind firewall, you will have to setup your firewall to enable outside connections to port 22 on your SSH server.  Different firewalls will need to do different things to setup port forwarding.  Below is an example of such configuration screen for popular Linksys Router
port forwarding configuration
You will have to replace 192.168.13.13 with IP address of your SSH server to make it work. 

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