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spoovy
Asked: 2015-09-14 09:22:52 +0800 CST

Open SSH forward ports from desktop (not in a terminal)

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For reasons I won't go into I often have to set up multiple SSH tunnels to a remote box -- often enough that it would be nice to be able to initiate it with a single command from a desktop launcher (I use GNOME Do).

Currently I have .ssh/config set up with the following (snipped a little and anonymised):

Host hawkeye
  Hostname hawkeye.avengers.com
  Port 22
  User thedudeabides
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
  LocalForward 8888 webproxy.avengers.com:888
  LocalForward 4845 irc.avengers.com:7434
  LocalForward 4093 git.avengers.com:3329

..and I open a terminal and run 'ssh hawkeye', which sets up tunnelling and leaves me ssh'd into hawkeye.

Problem is (small problem, granted) is that I often don't want the remote console session opened, and I'd like to be able to set these tunnels up with a single command from GNOME Do, so the tunnels are set up and backgrounded, but no terminal is opened.

I've tried scripts using various SSH flags but it never works as intended.

Any help appreciated.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Use ssh -N hawkeye, as specified in the man page:

         -N      Do not execute a remote command.  This is useful for just for‐
             warding ports (protocol version 2 only).
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