On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Allen, Jack <Jack.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto: > redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Fran Garcia > Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2011 6:21 PM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Re: How to configure sshd to automatically do port forwarding > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 23:19, Allen, Jack <Jack.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > Hello: > > > > I have an Application needs to connect to other systems, login > > run an Application and then transfer data to the other Application. This > > has been working via a program I wrote years ago called ptsd (Pseudo > > Terminal Server). Basically the ptsd program listens on a local port > > (127.0.0.1 20000). The Application open a connection to it and then ptsd > > prompts for some information and then makes a telnet connection to the > > other system and then just becomes a pipe, but handling the telnet > > protocol on one side of it. > > You can accomplish this using a config file in the _client_ host, ie: > > user@client ~ # cat .ssh/config > Host remotehost > Localforward 20000 localhost:20000 > > # ssh remotehost > (connect to port 20000 on clienthost and your connections will be crypted > :-)) > > HTH > > [Jack Allen] Thanks for the information, but I think you have misunderstood > my requirement. The Application cannot execute ssh, it must just establish a > plain TCP connection to a local TCP port and then have a program > automatically start a ssh connection to the remote system. And user will be > doing this through the Application and the Application will automatically do > it at scheduled times. So it needs to look something like this. > > Application <-simple-> (Local TCP port, Program or ssh) <-secure-> Remote > System > > You may want to reconsider this and think about use stunnel. I don't know if you need to 'authenticate' to the remote host. I sounds more like you just want to send bits out a socket to a remote host in a secure way. stunnel will let you do that without the need to have an account authentication the way ssh does -- David Bear College of Public Programs at ASU 602-496-0424 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
