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SSHing from a remote connection [message #32029]

Tue, 17 February 2009 16:05

Tim Hassall

Messages: 2
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi,

In my work we log into a unix box for authentication, from which we can
then ssh into our production boxes - they are not accessible with our
standard credentials. Is there a way currently that RSE can be used so
that we establish a connection to the authentication box, then ssh to a
production box and still get the benefits of RSE (Tree file structure,
file editing etc.) for the subsequent boxes? If not, a nudge in the right
direction code wise would not go unwelcomed :-)

Thanks,
Tim

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Re: SSHing from a remote connection [message #32064 is a reply to message #32029]

Tue, 17 February 2009 16:52

Steve Blass

Messages: 276
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Tim Hassall wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In my work we log into a unix box for authentication, from which we can
> then ssh into our production boxes - they are not accessible with our
> standard credentials. Is there a way currently that RSE can be used so
> that we establish a connection to the authentication box, then ssh to a
> production box and still get the benefits of RSE (Tree file structure,
> file editing etc.) for the subsequent boxes? If not, a nudge in the
> right direction code wise would not go unwelcomed :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>

You could build a tunnel to the production box on a non-standard local
port and aim RSE at that. A command line ssh example tunneling from
port 8701 on the localhost through the authentication box to the
production box would look like

$ ssh -l authbox_username -L8701:productionbox:22 authenticationbox

Now set up an RSE SSH connection for localhost and adjust the port by
right-clicking the localhost SFTP files item in the tree, selecting
properties and entering 8701 in the port number. Now you can connect
all the way through. When RSE asks you to login use the productionbox
credentials.

HTH,

Steve

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Re: SSHing from a remote connection [message #32240 is a reply to message #32064]

Mon, 23 February 2009 14:06

Martin Oberhuber

Messages: 1007
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Thanks Steve,

the tunneling trick should indeed fix the issue. I'd also like to add
that since RSE 3.1M5, there is better support for the files cache in
case multiple tunnels are used on localhost with different ports:

http://download.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/downloads/drops/S-3.1M5- 200902081925/buildNotes.php
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=245260

Some similar command for setting up an SSH tunnel are also near the end
of the dstore userdocs for setting up a server:

http://dsdp.eclipse.org/help/latest/topic/org.eclipse.rse.do c.user/tasks/tbeginlinux.html

Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Wind River
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm

Steve Blass wrote:
> Tim Hassall wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In my work we log into a unix box for authentication, from which we
>> can then ssh into our production boxes - they are not accessible with
>> our standard credentials. Is there a way currently that RSE can be
>> used so that we establish a connection to the authentication box, then
>> ssh to a production box and still get the benefits of RSE (Tree file
>> structure, file editing etc.) for the subsequent boxes? If not, a
>> nudge in the right direction code wise would not go unwelcomed :-)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tim
>>
>
> You could build a tunnel to the production box on a non-standard local
> port and aim RSE at that. A command line ssh example tunneling from
> port 8701 on the localhost through the authentication box to the
> production box would look like
>
> $ ssh -l authbox_username -L8701:productionbox:22 authenticationbox
>
> Now set up an RSE SSH connection for localhost and adjust the port by
> right-clicking the localhost SFTP files item in the tree, selecting
> properties and entering 8701 in the port number. Now you can connect
> all the way through. When RSE asks you to login use the productionbox
> credentials.
>
> HTH,
>
> Steve
>
>
>

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