Support for gobby session through SSH channels

[wzab]

I was forced to work in an environment with very restrictive network policy. At the same time I needed to collaborate with someone else developing our sources via Gobby. I've managed to do it using the SSH - i.e. I've created a local session, listening on a standard 6522 port, and "published" it by SSH on another, external server acessible for my coworker: $ssh -R32456:localhost:6522 user<at>external.public.server.edu

The second party can either connect to this server giving it's hostname and port in the session dialog, or (if working in similar restricted environment) can "import" this session via SSH: $ssh -L62999:another_user@external.public.server.edu:32456 and then connect to the localhost:62999.

The above scenario works perfectly, but is quite inconvenient. Maybe it could be possible to add in GUI options like "Create SSH tunneled session" and "Join SSH tunneled session"?

[armin]

Isn't this how you normally do SSH tunneling? Do you know other applications who have "built-in" support for it, for reference?

[mru]

Yes it is. libvirt has support for accessing/managing remote hosts via ssh