Difference between revisions of "Ssh reverse tunnel"
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To allow login without password create public/private rsa key pair on the client and copy the private key to the .ssh/authorized_keys file an set mod to 600 | To allow login without password create public/private rsa key pair on the client and copy the private key to the .ssh/authorized_keys file an set mod to 600 | ||
<source lang=bash> | <source lang=bash> | ||
| − | ssh - | + | ssh-keygen |
| + | ssh-copy-id steve@10.10.10.10 | ||
</source> | </source> | ||
Establishing the reversed tunnel from a scriptfile. You probably needs to install '''autossh'''. | Establishing the reversed tunnel from a scriptfile. You probably needs to install '''autossh'''. | ||
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RequiredBy=network.target | RequiredBy=network.target | ||
</source> | </source> | ||
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=local machine= | =local machine= | ||
On local machine you want to ssh from create ~/bin/sshremote with the following and make it executeable. | On local machine you want to ssh from create ~/bin/sshremote with the following and make it executeable. | ||
Revision as of 11:28, 1 April 2026
To ssh to a Linux server behind a firewall that doesn't allow incoming connections, a reverse ssh tunnel can be created from the server to a known client host. The client host should have a static IP address or a DNS hostname.
Remote server
To allow login without password create public/private rsa key pair on the client and copy the private key to the .ssh/authorized_keys file an set mod to 600
ssh-keygen
ssh-copy-id steve@10.10.10.10
Establishing the reversed tunnel from a scriptfile. You probably needs to install autossh.
#!/usr/bin/bash
# See: https://medium.com/@souri.rv/autossh-for-keeping-ssh-tunnels-alive-5c14207c6ba9
REMOTE_HOST="222.2.2.2"
REMOTE_PORT="9000"
REMOTE_USER="steve"
autossh -M 0 -gNC $1 -o "ExitOnForwardFailure=yes" -o "ServerAliveInterval=10" -o "ServerAliveCountMax=3" -R ${REMOTE_PORT}:localhost:22 ${REMOTE_USER}@${REMOTE_USER}
/etc/systemd/system/reversessh.service
[Unit]
Description=Reverse SSH tunnel
After=network.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=60
StartLimitBurst=12
[Service]
ExecStart=/bin/bash /home/steve/bin/reversessh.sh
Type=simple
User=steve
Group=steve
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
RequiredBy=network.target
local machine
On local machine you want to ssh from create ~/bin/sshremote with the following and make it executeable. Use it as for example: sshremote mars chris
#!/bin/bash
declare -A hosts
# machinename in /etc/hosts maps to portnumber
hosts["mars"]=9999
hosts["mbus1"]=9998
hosts["mars2"]=9997
hosts["dhdc"]=9996
host=$1
user=$2
ip="localhost"
ssh -p ${hosts[${host}]} ${user}@${ip}