Re: ssh tunnels and Xvnc - (yes, I know... What? not again!?)

From: Helge Oldach (helge.oldach_at_atosorigin.com)
Date: 12/12/03

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    To: molter@tin.it (Marco Molteni)
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:26:35 +0100 (MET)

    Marco Molteni:
    >> I have a situation that has not been fully addressed by the excellent
    >> documentation on getting ssh tunnels and remote X-windows display managers
    >
    >> (like VNC) running. And my feeble brain is too damaged by the dreaded
    >lurgy
    >> to make heads or tails of it.
    >>
    >> home machine (home) ---- ISP --- internet --- work firewall --- work
    >machine1
    >> (additional firewall?) (work1) --- work machine 2 (desktop) (work2).
    >>
    >> I can ssh from home to the work1 and ssh from there to work2.
    >> home runs windows 2k and I have (full) admin access
    >> work1 and 2 run FreeBSD
    >> I have root access on work2 but not work 1
    >
    >you should be able to do it in one step, no need to log into work1,
    >no need to run the listener... you just need your ssh public keys
    >in work1 and work2

    Yep.

    >from home you double tunnel:
    >LOCALPORT=6333
    >REMOTEPORT=5901
    >ssh -t -L $LOCALPORT:localhost:12945 work1 \
    > ssh -L 12945:localhost:$REMOTEPORT work2

    As home is a W2k box, ssh won't probably work exactly like this...

    Putty supports a "don't allocate a pseudo-terminal" option to achieve
    the effect of ssh's "-t" option. (Required, otherwise work1 will bark.)

    Helge
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