[ILUG] SSH

[bobb]

Jon. hath declared on Wednesday the 21 day of July 2004  :-:
> Hey,
> 
> There is a machine behind a firewall, this user has asked me to connect to 
> this machine however its stuck behind a firewall. This user can however 
> ssh out to a machine i use on the internet. Is it possible to setup that 
> he ssh at myhost and from that i can somehow tunnel back to his machine thats 
> behind the firewall through the ssh session that he has started??
 
He does this:

    ssh -R 2222:localhost:22 your.host.com

You do this:

    ssh localhost -p 2222


You need to make sure that AllowTcpForwarding is set to you in your
/etc/ssh/sshd_config.

- bobb

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