OT: port forwarding with ssh

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Mike Wright <nobody at nospam.hostisimo.com>
wrote:

> On 03/23/2016 12:17 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Mike Wright
>> <nobody at nospam.hostisimo.com <mailto:nobody at nospam.hostisimo.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     Goal: connect to a remote pop3 server over an encrypted link.
>>
>>     I'm trying to setup port forwarding but keep receiving a usage
>>     message instead of success.  Below is the excerpted man page rule
>>     I'm trying to use:
>>
>>     usage: ssh -L [bind_address:]port:host:hostport]
>>
>>     Here's what I'm trying:
>>
>>     sudo ssh -L lo.cal.ip.adx:11110:rem.ote.ip.adx:110
>>
>>
>> ssh requires a login so you still need to login as a user to a server
>> (not necessarily the machine being forwarded to). If you want the local
>> ip side to accept connections from other computers you'll also need to
>> add "-g"
>>
>> # sudo ssh -L lo.cal.ip.adx:11110:rem.ote.ip.adx:110 user at server
>>
>
> Thanks for the response Richard.
>
> I have my public rsa key on the remote side and can establish a regular
> ssh connections without any intervention.  My pop ap. is already preloaded
> with its necessary credentials, too.


I didn't know if ssh assumed anything about the remote system. So it
assumes the current user your'e sudo'ing from and the remote IP is the
server to shell into?

Thanks,
Richard
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