Re: putty question - port forwarding on a machine where I have no shell access

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Date: 07/31/02 

Date: 31 Jul 2002 17:24:10 GMT

Ken Anderson <ka@pacific.net> writes:

>Using the win32 putty client and ssh2 to connect to a host that will
>accept my connection, but I don't have shell access. I don't need shell
>access, just to port forward pop and smtp.
>So, I checked the option in putty 'don't allocate a psydoterminal',
>which should do what I want, but in the putty.log, I see the request
>still coming from putty for a shell. Is this a broken feature, or am I
>missing something?

Any command will be started by your shell. If you don't have a shell, you
cannot run commands over ssh.

If your system administrator approves of this, have him setup a
crippleware shell -- one that only allows a logout command for
example.

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