Re: [PLUG] SSH Tunnel

One option that's slightly smoother is actually to use a ProxyCommand and chained ssh processes:

Host VM

Hostname 192.168.4.4

user USERNAMEforVM

ServerAliveInterval 300

ProxyCommand ssh oldsys nc %h %p

Host oldsys

Hostname 10.10.10.25

user eric

ServerAliveInterval 300

Although it's not as common as using port forwards for this, it allows you to tie the underlying ssh transport session directly to the active session so they are created and destroyed together. Should also work with scp.

-MJ

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Eric at Lucii.org <eric@lucii.org> wrote:

I need to create a ssh tunnel through an intermediate server (10.10.10.25)
to a vm on that server (192.168.4.4)

So.... I put this in my .ssh/config file:

Host oldsys
Hostname 10.10.10.25
user eric
ServerAliveInterval 300
LocalForward 20000 192.168.4.4:22

I've set up the authorized_keys so the login at each stage should be automatic.

= From the current machine I can ssh to 10.10.10.25
= From 10.10.10.25 I can ssh to 192.168.4.4

But: the tunnel appears to not work.
When I 'ssh oldsys' from my original server I end up logged in to the 10.10.10.25 server.
It's like I never told it to do a forward :-(

What am I missing here?
Eric
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