sshd port forward

Ugo Bellavance ugob at camo-route.com
Mon Sep 19 07:23:54 PDT 2005


Erik Norgaard wrote:
> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> 
>> Erik Norgaard wrote:
>>
>>> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'm connecting from a windows box, using putty.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, this wasn't clear.
>>>
>>>
>>>> in the SSH > Tunnels section of the connexion, there is:
>>>>
>>>> L80    192.168.x.x:80
>>>> L143    192.168.x.x:80
>>
>>
>>
>> Typo:  should read: L143    192.168.x.x:143
>>
>>
>>>> 192.168.x.x is the IP address of the server on which I connect to, and
>>>> that has the dovecot server installed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Try: L1430 127.0.0.1:143
>>>
>>> You should then be able to connect to your imap server by connecting to
>>> port 1430 on localhost.
>>>
>>> When I tunnel (ok, this is FBSD2FBSD) I use:
>>>
>>> $ ssh -L1430:localhost:143 imap.example.com
>>
>>
>> It does connect, prompts for a password.  When I provide the right
>> password, I can see that there are new message (Thunderbird), but when I
>> click on a message to see it, it doesn't load the message and freezes my
>> ssh session.
> 
> 
> There's no surprise that you get the password prompt for the ssh
> session, it's the establishing of a tunnel that goes wrong.

No, I get a password prompt from Thunderbird.  I use keys auth, not
passwd auth with SSH on this server.  So I think the tunnel is ok, but
the server reacts badly on the command to read the actual message.

> 
> Did you change 192.168.x.x to 127.0.0.1 and L143 to L1430? If not do it,
> and configure thunderbird to connect to localhost:1430.
> 

Yes I did.

> If you speak IMAP you can also telnet localhost:1430 instead of
> reconfiguring thunderbird every time.

Ok

> 
> Cheers, Erik
> 


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