embedding sshd into a server

From: thablobulus (thablobulus_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/14/05 

Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:16:00 -0500

I have a server that, among other things, listens on a socket where
admins can connect to issue commands. Right now it listens on a
configurable IP/port with no authentication. I'd like to secure it.

What I envisioned is, have the server fork and exec an sshd process that
listens on a special port (so it doesn't conflict with the system sshd).

When an ssh clients connects to the special sshd port and authenticates
successfully, here is what I want to happen: instead of opening a shell
or executing a command specified by the client, I want sshd to turn into
a dumb proxy that connects its own stdin/stdout to the client socket.
(The stdin/stdout are already set up as pipes to the parent server process).

Is something like this possible?

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