Solved: SSH tunnel question

[Steven W. Orr]

On Wednesday, Feb 27th 2008 at 12:35 -0000, quoth Michael ODonnell:

=>You could execute this command on your work computer:
=>
=>   ssh -R 2222:localhost:22 yourHomeComputer
=>
=>...which is saying "start SSH and arrange for the SSH on the
=>Remote end to listen for connections on port 2222 and forward
=>them to port 22 on the Local end".  After that, this would
=>work on your home computer:
=>
=>   ssh -p 2222 localhost
=>
=>Nothing sacred about 2222 except that it's somewhat mnemonic.

Four Quatloos to Michael!

On the work side:
ssh -R 9876:localhost:22 syslang.net
On the home side:
ssh -v -p 2222 localhost

Don't forget to use whatever -l options are needed and any required -p for 
the work side. (People at home should probably not use 22.)

One remaining question:

When I run the work side incantation, it turns into a shell session. Is 
there a way to change it so that it has no session at the end of it so I 
could just background it? (The authentication is all done via 
key-exchange.)

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