I am trying to convert below putty configuration to a ssh command.
I do not understand the mysql5:3306 part. What is this mysql5 element and what is the corresponding command line option in the ssh command on Linux?
Apparently,
ssh -N -L 3306:mysql5:3306 user#remote
worked to establish the ssh tunnel.
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To establish an SSH connection between my PC (Linux) and server (Linux) I have to enter the password of the user.
ssh USER#<IP-Address>
Now I want to replace the password with FIDO2. For this I have executed the following commands on my PC and followed the instructions.
ssh-keygen -t ed25519-sk -O resident -O application=ssh:YourTextHere -f ~/.ssh/id_mykey_sk`
and
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_mykey_sk.pub USER#<IP-Address>
Now I have the problem when I try to establish the SSH connection it still asks for the password instead of the FIDO2 stick. What could be the reason for this?
I found out, that when I run the commands
eval `ssh-agent -s`
and
ssh-add -K
it works as expected.
Establish a connection to my server via
ssh USER#<IP-Address>
will now work with the FIDO2 key.
I'm just trying to use PuTTY to get an SSH connection to my servers.
These servers allow incoming SSH connection only from another specific server ("MySshProxyingServer" in example below).
Using Linux this is no problem with the ssh -W command.
In PuTTY I can't find the options to create such a connection.
Example under Linux (~/.ssh/config):
Host MyHostToConnectTo
Hostname xx.xx.xx.xx
User root
Identityfile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
ProxyCommand ssh MySshProxyServer -W %h:%p
Anyone knows how to use such a config in PuTTY?
If you want to "jump a host", then using "local proxy command" is an overkill. Recent versions of PuTTY have this build-in. Go to Connection > Proxy, and in "Proxy type", select "SSH to proxy and use port forwarding". Then specify the details of the intermediate server below (like Hostname, Port, Username, Password [or load your private key to Pageant]).
(It's actually an overkill for OpenSSH too, as it has more user friendly options for this purpose too, see Does OpenSSH support multihop login?)
To answer your literal question: The equivalent in PuTTY is "local proxy command". You can use the plink.exe with the -nc switch instead of the ssh with the -W switch:
The "local proxy command" is:
plink.exe %user#%proxyhost -P %proxyport -nc %host:%port
An alternative is to open a tunnel via the "MySshProxyServer" first using another instance of PuTTY (or Plink).
See for example:
How to create SSH tunnel using PuTTY in Windows?
My guide for tunneling SFTP/SCP session. It's for WinSCP, but just use PuTTY instead of WinSCP in section Connecting through the tunnel.
Just in case you still use password for your jumphost is the option for that with an example.
plink.exe %user#%proxyhost -pw %pass -P %proxyport -nc %host:%port
When you want to start putty.exe from commandline it works this way:
putty.exe -proxycmd "plink.exe user#jumphost -P 22 -nc targethost:targetport" user#foo
According to the docs it uses stdin/stout of the proxycmd so "foo" is ok as target hostname here.
Suppose we want ssh to 172.16.0.21 via 8.8.8.8
login name in both hosts is john
path to private key is C:\users\john\.ssh\private.ppk
.
plink.exe -v -ssh %user#%proxyhost -P %proxyport -nc %host:%port -i "c:\Users\john\.ssh\private.ppk"
p.s.
If your private key has password protect then you must additionaly launch pageant and load your private key there
p.s.
if you want to use command line only then:
putty.exe -proxycmd "plink.exe john#8.8.8.8 -P 22 -nc 172.16.0.21:22 -i c:\Users\john\.ssh\private.ppk " john#172.16.0.21 -i c:\Users\john\.ssh\private.ppk
I'm currently connecting my local machine with the target running commands in my local (mobaxterm), in pivotonone and pivottwo, this is the flow of data:
mobaxterm <--- pivotone <--- pivottwo <--- target
These are the commands that I run on each machine:
local(mobaxterm)
ssh -L 5601:127.0.0.1:5601 root#pivotone
pivotone
ssh -L 5601:127.0.0.1:5601 root#pivottwo
pivottwo
ssh -L 5601:127.0.0.1:5601 root#target
I was wandering if I could do the same but with just one command in my mobaxterm machine?
You don't need the -L option to manage jump hosts.
ssh -J root#pivotone,root#pivottwo root#target
You can automate this in your .ssh/config file
Host target
ProxyJump root#pivotone,root#pivottwo
Then you can simply run
ssh root#target
Establishing SSH tunnel can done from the command line by explicitly giving
ssh -N -f -L 18888:192.168.224.143:8888 username#192.168.224.143
or defining tunnel in ~/.ssh/config file
Host tunnel
HostName 192.168.224.143
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/mine.key
LocalForward 18888 192.168.224.143:8888
User username
and then running,
ssh -f -N tunnel
Is there a way to start this tunnel without running the ssh ssh -f -N tunnel command explicitly?
I would like to establish this tunnel whenever my machine boots up. Do not want to add it in init script. Can it be done with SSH configuration itself?
No. SSH configuration is not designed to start something for you automatically. You need to add it to your startup applications or init script/systemd service, if you want to start it automatically after the network.
I also recommend you to use autossh which will take care of re-establishing the tunnel, if it fails for some reason.
My ultimate goal is to use MyEnTunnel to set up a tunnel between a Windows server at location A, and a BSD machine at location B so that I can access a database server running at location B locally at A. (localhost:3054 ======> bsdmachine:3050) MyEnTunnel is essentially a Windows Service wrapper for plink.
We use a private key for ssh access at location B. PuttyGen was used to convert the private key into a .ppk file to be compatible with putty, plink, etc. Putty connects to the BSD machine using the .ppk with no problems whatsoever.
I copied the command line string MyEnTunnel is using to establish the connection, pasted it into a directory with the latest version of putty, plink, etc. (in case MyEnTunnel's plink.exe is outdated), and it still failed.
plink.exe 192.168.0.233 -N -ssh -2 -P 916 -l "root" -C -i "keyfile.ppk" -L 3054:192.168.0.208:3050
The BSD machine has several jails running; 1.233 is the host, and accepts SSH connections. 1.208 is a jail with a server listening to 3050, and will not accept ssh connections.
I use tunnels so rarely, I always forget the proper order of things, and when I'm supposed to ur -R and -L, so I tried the 16 possibilities. ;-) I then started plink with the bare options:
plink.exe 192.168.0.233 -N -ssh -2 -P 916 -l "root" -i "keyfile.ppk"
Putty, with these settings, connects without a hitch. Plink reports:
Using username "root".
And proceeds to do nothing forever.
What am I doing wrong, and what would establish the tunnel with the local listening port 3054, and the target port 3050 at 192.168.0.208?
You used the -N flag, this makes it run on the background. If you add the -v flag you can see all the activity of the forward/tunnel.