Re: Best "network manager"
Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 02:07:39PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Maybe I'm just being particularly dense today, but is there really a
>> problem with maintaining the SSH tunnel even when localhost and your mail
>> host are
>> the same machine? Then you always connect to port 2525.
>
> How would you set this up so the tunnel was always available?
> Currently, I boot the laptop and log in to my account. I'm prompted
> for my pass phrase when I first log in via ssh-add. Then open an
> xterm and create the ssh tunnel.
>
> The tunnel should available soon as the network comes up before user
> login. I suppose I could create a single-use ssh key pair and use
> that key to create the tunnel in an init script and use the -N ssh
> option. Not sure what the single use command would be, though.
> Perhaps /bin/false to prevent misuse of the keypair.
>
> Or am I missing the obvious procedure?
Ah, I'm outta my depth talking about ssh. It "just works" :-)
I run:
/usr/bin/ssh -L 2525:domain:25 -l user -N domain
from an init script, and use "/etc/init.d/sshTunnel restart" from
my /etc/network/if-up.d/ directory.
--
derek
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