Hello I'm trying to create compatibility with an automated system that I do not have control over and cannot change. The system was built to connect to individual embedded linux machines that create reverse tunnels back to a server. These tunnels take the form: /bin/ssh -i /home/remote/.ssh/id_rsa -Nnx2TR 22000:127.0.0.1:22 robot at externalhost /bin/ssh -i /home/remote/.ssh/id_rsa -Nnx2TR 22001:127.0.0.1:22 robot at externalhost /bin/ssh -i /home/remote/.ssh/id_rsa -Nnx2TR 22002:127.0.0.1:22 robot at externalhost /bin/ssh -i /home/remote/.ssh/id_rsa -Nnx2TR 22003:127.0.0.1:22 robot at externalhost The bot then SCP copies from the home directory: scp -i id_rsa -P 22000 remote at localhost:file.tar.gz The major issue is that the Port is the identifying metric for the home folder of the remote user. Each tunnel should have a different folder because each folder represents a different physical location. The system was setup with individual machines in mind. Instead of SCP pulling from /home/remote, it should pull from /home/remote22000, /home/remote22001, etc based on the port number of the reverse tunnel.' I'm not sure if there's anyway to get sshd to solve this problem currently. I'm open to all suggestions. I have spent a lot of time reading man pages for openssh and nothing I have tried has worked so far. I found this post to the mailing list: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/openssh/dev/52909 If I made each tunnel listen on a different port then I could use that to chroot each port to a different directory. I don't know if this is the best approach. I can't get the patch to work on a current version of openssh so if that's the best solution I would need some help with that. Thanks
