Re: Programmatically adding port forwardings -- how?

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_gate.dodgy.net.au)
Date: 03/16/05 

Date: 16 Mar 2005 12:49:53 GMT

On 2005-03-16, Ingolf Steinbach <ingolf.steinbach@jena-optronik.de> wrote:
> is there a way for a program to add port forwardings to an
> existing ssh connection when that ssh process gets its stdin
> via a pipe from this program?

There's an enhancement request with patch to do it over the control
socket:
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=993

> How can I feed the "-L x:y:z" command line to ssh from my
> program (e.g. convince ssh to read from stdin rather than
> /dev/tty)?

I think you'd have to modify ssh. 

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