Vikram Rangnekar wrote:

+++ Shahed Moolji [09/03/04 12:07 -0000]:

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Hi,

I need to write an application that enables ssh tunneling for various ports. (Using openssl or any other library)

The steps involved are :-

1. Open a ssh session (conection ?)
2. Authenticate etc etc
3. wait for a user to enter a port number.
4. Enable port forwarding on the specified local / remort port

Now I want to do steps 3&4 on the same session, rather than open new ssh connections everytime. Is this possible ?

I tried searching the net, but nowhere did I find any thing that tells me that I can do port forwarding after establishing an ssh connection.

Any ideas if this is possible ? I have been looking at various library docs till now, and they dont explain if its possible to do this.

I am still trying to find some good docs on ssh that explain the protocol in a simple manner.

Why cant you take port and authentication string when application start and then use ssh port forwarding/bind directly? Will this not work for you?

-krd.