Bug#87253: wish: ssh tunneling to UNIX sockets

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 12:35:19PM -0800, Tyler 'Crackerjack' MacDonald wrote:
> Package: ssh
> Version: 1:3.6.1p2-12
> Severity: normal
> Followup-For: Bug #87253
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  I would like to see ssh support tunneling to/from UNIX sockets as
> well as TCP/IP sockets. I imagine something like this:
> 
>  ssh -L 3306:/var/lib/mysql.sock -N -f faraway@yi.org
> 
>  or
> 
>  ssl -L /var/tmp/yi.mysql.sock:/var/lib/mysql.sock -N -f faraway@yi.org
> 
>  On the surface it doesnt sound too hard to implement... what do you think
> of the idea?

I think that it should be a separate wishlist bug report rather than
tacked onto the end of #87253. :)

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]