Re: ssh tunnel, windowless-- possible in puTTY?

From: Stephan Knabe (sknabe_at_ifh.de)
Date: 03/04/04 

Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 09:00:31 +0100

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, it was written:

>
> I want an ssh tunnel, from a Windows machine to a linux server. ssh
> can provide tunnels, as a side-effect of the main ssh connection. That
> connection usually comes with a terminal window. That, I don't want.
>
> Using puTTY to set up the connection, is there any way to tell it to
> NOT display any terminal window?
>
> I've concluded puTTY won't do that, but am fishing to be corrected.
> Please.

This is not puTTY specific. It is a side effect of SSH. There have been
some discussions about this in the past. Most conclusions were to create a
kind of pseudo-shell for the user, which does not give a prompt.
Did someone do this successfully ?

regards

Stephan Knabe

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