Re: StreamLocal forwarding

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Hi folks,

Can nobody help me to figure out why this is not working? I'd like to think
that I have given it a good attempt at figuring it out for myself, but
everything I see says my configuration *should* be working.

Many thanks!

Rogan


On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 9:07 PM Rogan Dawes <rogan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> (3rd time I am sending this message, none of the other appear to have
> made it through!)
>
> Using "OpenSSH_6.9p1 Ubuntu-2ubuntu0.1, OpenSSL 1.0.2d 9 Jul 2015" on
> the server, "OpenSSH_7.2p2, OpenSSL 1.0.2g  1 Mar 2016" on the client.
>
> I am trying to use sshtunnel with StreamLocal forwarding to enable me
> to connect back to the client's ssh port, without having to arbitrate
> ports between clients.
>
> The idea is to configure the server to allow StreamLocalForwarding via
> a unique Unix socket on the host, that relays back to the client.
>
> i.e. on the client (named gateway for this example, but will be unique
> once deployed in volume):
>
> /usr/bin/ssh -o CheckHostIP=yes -o LogLevel=INFO -o
> ServerAliveCountMax=3 -o ServerAliveInterval=5 -o
> StrictHostKeyChecking=yes -o TCPKeepAlive=yes -o
> StreamLocalBindUnlink=yes -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes -o BatchMode=yes
> -nN -R /sshvpn/gateway:127.0.0.1:22 -p 52221 sshvpn@host
>
> On the server:
>
> Match User sshvpn
>   ChrootDirectory /var/sshvpn/
>   AllowTCPForwarding no
>   AllowStreamLocalForwarding yes
>   StreamLocalBindUnlink yes
>
> Then to connect to the client:
>
> $ ssh -o ProxyCommand='socat /var/sshvpn/sshvpn/gateway' root@gateway
>
> So, it works fine the first time, when the socket does not exist. Once
> the connection terminates, and the client attempts to log in again, it
> fails because the socket already exists:
>
> debug1: user sshvpn matched 'User sshvpn' at line 89
> debug3: match found
> debug3: reprocess config:90 setting ChrootDirectory /var/sshvpn/
> debug3: reprocess config:91 setting AllowTCPForwarding no
> debug3: reprocess config:92 setting AllowStreamLocalForwarding yes
> debug3: reprocess config:93 setting StreamLocalBindUnlink yes
> [...snip...]
> debug1: server_input_global_request: rtype
> streamlocal-forward@xxxxxxxxxxx want_reply 1
> debug1: server_input_global_request: streamlocal-forward listen path
> /sshvpn/gateway
> debug3: channel_setup_fwd_listener_streamlocal: type 19 path
> /sshvpn/gateway
> bind: Address already in use
> unix_listener: cannot bind to path: /sshvpn/gateway
>
> I am aware of the StreamLocalBindUnlink option, and you can see that
> it is set on both the client and the server, but it doesn't seem to be
> effective.
>
> I also ran it under ltrace, and got the following:
>
> 24079 write(2, "debug3: channel_setup_fwd_listen"..., 78)  = 78
> 24079 umask(0177)                                          = 02
> 24079 socket(1, 1, 0)                                      = 8
> 24079 bind(8, 0x7ffc4f8915c0, 110, -1)                     = -1
> 24079 __errno_location()                                   = 0x7f03f55a5710
> 24079 strerror(98)                                         = "Address
> already in use"
>
> From this, it appears that there is no attempt to unlink the socket if
> it already exists, as would be expected from this code
> (
> https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/7de4b03a6e4071d454b72927ffaf52949fa34545/misc.c#L1083
> ):
>
> sock = socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
> if (sock < 0) {
> saved_errno = errno;
> error("socket: %.100s", strerror(errno));
> errno = saved_errno;
> return -1;
> }
> if (unlink_first == 1) {
> if (unlink(path) != 0 && errno != ENOENT)
> error("unlink(%s): %.100s", path, strerror(errno));
> }
> if (bind(sock, (struct sockaddr *)&sunaddr, sizeof(sunaddr)) < 0) {
> saved_errno = errno;
> error("bind: %.100s", strerror(errno));
> close(sock);
> error("%s: cannot bind to path: %s", __func__, path);
> errno = saved_errno;
> return -1;
> }
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Rogan
>
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