ssh tunnel unattended

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Sun Aug 7 20:03:36 AWST 2016



On 08/07/2016 07:29 AM, Yan Seiner wrote:
> I have a remote node that I want to administer.  I want to run an ssh 
> tunnel from that node to my router.
>
> If I start it from the command line with
>
> /usr/bin/ssh  -R 1022:localhost:22 uuu at example.com -p 23
>
> everything works fine.
>
> But if I try to run it from inittab or /etc/rc.local, it never 
> connects.  I've tried
>
> /usr/bin/ssh  -N -T -R 1022:localhost:22 uuu at example.com -p 23
> /usr/bin/ssh  -N -R 1022:localhost:22 uuu at example.com -p 23
>
> nothing seems to work.  How do I run a tunnel automatically from an 
> embedded box?

To clarify this:

The tunnel connects, tcpdump sees packets going back and forth, but 
netstat on the local doesn't show the port.



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