Port Forwarding in background?

[David George]

On 4/6/2006 1:06 AM, Matt Johnston wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:45:10PM -0400, David George wrote:
>  
>
>>Using dbclient 0.48.1 on the client attempting to forward a local port 
>>to dropbear server 0.48.1 on another machine, how do I get the client to 
>>go into the background?
>>
<snip>

>I'll look at adding this as a feature in a future release,
>it should bfairly straightforward. Running dbclient with
>a -T option (disabling ttys) and & at the end seems to work
>for now (as long as you have a public key). Alternatively,
>you should be able to run with -T but without the &, enter
>your password, then ctrl-z, "bg".
>
>  
>
<more snipping>

>Generate a key with
>
>dropbearkey -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/dbkey.rsa
>
>on the machine where you run dbclient, then paste the public
>key line to ~root/.ssh/authorized_keys on the server
>(10.100.1.101).
>
>Run 
>
>dbclient -T -i ~/.ssh/dbkey.rsa -L 20001:localhost:10001 root at 10.100.1.101 &
>
>and it should work - let me know if it doesn't.
>  
>
I had tried the -T before and got "-sh: cannot open not a tty: No such 
file".  I just tried it and got the same thing.  Now that I am doing the 
public key correctly (thanks) I am able to do the following and it works:

dbclient -T -i ~/.ssh/dbkey.rsa -L 20001:localhost:10001 root at 10.100.1.101 >/dev/null 2>&1 &

Thank you very much for your help and your very quick response.

-- 
David