On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Sudarshan Soma <sudarshan12s@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks all for your valuable inputs.
>
> My telnet server application has its own way of handling
> authentication, commands supported,..
> Hence i cant easily move to ssh. I know i can use SSH to use my own
> authentication using PAM, but the other things such as commands
> supported are all not easily done just by moving to ssh server.
>
> Based on my requirements , i think tunelling(either stunnel or ssh
> tuneling) is the best option to go with, if not please suggest any
> other way you could think of?
>
> With tunneling, Can i somehow avoid the client side setup of
> specifying a non-standard port which will forward requests to sshd.
>
> Can it be as easy as below: (I think its not possible, but i just want
> to confirm that )
>
> on the server:
> - A tunneling port (7778) listens , which forward connections to my
> application running at port 4050.
>
> on the client:
> use ssh to connect to port 7778. This will make the server port 7778
> forward the connections to my application port 4050 and back in the
> same way.
>
> Please advice.
>
> Best Regards,
> Pavan.
This will be a complex setup on the client side, but this is how ssh
tunneling works.
Server:
sshd listens on port 22, and has a configuration to allow the specific
port forwarding you need.
Accounts the clients will login to need to have a shell that just
sleeps. (don't allow other commands to run)
Client:
You need to configure the port forwarding: (openssh)
ssh -N -L4050:localhost:4050 account@server-host
then on the client:
telnet localhost 4050
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