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

From: Richard E. Silverman (slade@shore.net)
Date: 08/01/02 

From: slade@shore.net (Richard E. Silverman)
Date: 31 Jul 2002 21:09:26 -0400

> 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,

No, it shouldn't -- a pseudoterminal and an SSH shell channel are not the
same thing. This option simply means that sshd won't attach a pty to the
other end of the shell channel. PuTTY doesn't appear to have the feature
of making an SSH connection without requesting a shell channel (e.g. like
the -N option to OpenSSH) 

-- 
  Richard Silverman
  slade@shore.net

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