I've just discovered the permitopen flag. We need such a feature for our poor man's VPN services, but this flag seems to be usable only if you generate your authorized_keys file from a database or something like that: keeping a long list of host/port combinations up to date for several users and keys is no fun. As announced before, we have developed a far more powerful mechanism for controlling port forwarding, see: http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/projects/openssh.php (I'm currenty porting it to the most recent portable OpenSSH version.) Why haven't you used this already existing code? -- Florian Weimer Florian.Weimer at RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE University of Stuttgart http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/ RUS-CERT +49-711-685-5973/fax +49-711-685-5898
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 08:35:18PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:> I've just discovered the permitopen flag. We need such a feature for > our poor man's VPN services, but this flag seems to be usable only if > you generate your authorized_keys file from a database or something > like that: keeping a long list of host/port combinations up to date > for several users and keys is no fun. > > As announced before, we have developed a far more powerful mechanism > for controlling port forwarding, see: > > http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/projects/openssh.php > > (I'm currenty porting it to the most recent portable OpenSSH version.) > > Why haven't you used this already existing code?already existing code was used.