ssh port redirection ?

[Tom Buskey]

You don't *have* to open a login session on the remote host:

ports='-L 143:burlma1-smail1.gtei.net:143 -L 110:burlma1-smail1.gtei.net:
110 -L  -L 119:news.genuity.net:119'

sudo ssh -2 -C -f -l tbuskey $ports magic.tools.gtei.net '/bin/sleep 20000000'

Man ssh:

    -f      Requests ssh to go to background just before command execution.
             This is useful if ssh is going to ask for passwords or
             passphrases, but the user wants it in the background.  This
             implies -n.


bscott at ntisys.com said:
>On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, at 3:30pm, ddm+gnhlug at pizzashack.org wrote:
>> Yes, you do.  Unfortunately, ssh ties up a terminal whenever you do a port
>> redirection; i.e. you must log into the system to do this.
>
>  If this really bothers people that much, and you are using SSH protocol
>version 2 (and you *are* doing that, right?), you can do this:

That's better too.

>
>ssh -N pll at system-b -L 8110:pop-server:110 &
>fetchmail --protocol POP3 --port 8110 localhost
>
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