Agent-tunneling via ssh?

Heiko W.Rupp hrupp at redhat.com
Mon Mar 24 08:32:49 UTC 2014


Hey,

has anyone tried to tunnel agent communication via ssh+port forwarding?

If I recall and understand ssh right, then is is possible to "dial" into the
server and enable port forwarding, so that port 16163 of the agent can be
reached from the server.

This could also allow to mitigate changing ip addresses of the agent machine,
as the agent machine initiates the ssh connection and the server does not need
to care about the agents ip.

On the server host, there would probably be some special process that
replaces the normal "interactive" shell of the user.
One can then have one unix user per agent or also a joined user for
all agents depending on "taste". 

Does that make sense?

I think this could be an awesome student project.

  Heiko



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