Solved: SSH tunnel question

[Steven W. Orr]

On Wednesday, Feb 27th 2008 at 16:52 -0000, quoth Ben Scott:

=>On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
=>>  And you could simplify all this by setting up a specific key on the
=>>  remote side to exec the specific command you want.
=>
=>  As I understand it, he's not looking to execute *any* command (even
=>a shell) on the remote (home, in this case).  He's just looking to
=>establish a long-term SSH session from work to home, so that he can
=>later use it to tunnel SSH-over-SSH, from home back to work.
=>
=>  What he may want to do is create convenience entires in
=>$HOME/.ssh/config for each of these connections.  For example, on his
=>work computer, he might have an entry like:
=>
=>	Host backdoor
=>	HostName foo.syslang.net
=>	User steveo
=>	BatchMode yes
=>	ExitOnForwardFailure yes
=>	PasswordAuthentication no
=>	RemoteForward 2222 localhost:22
=>
=>And then, on his home computer, he could do this:
=>
=>	Host work
=>	HostName localhost
=>	Port 2222
=>	User sorr
=>
=>  End result being, he can run "ssh -f -N backdoor &" on his work PC
=>to get thing started, and then run "ssh work" at home to make use of
=>the backdoor tunnel.
=>
=>  See ssh_config(1) for an explanation of the config file directives.

Bingo. That's exactly what I did. :-)

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