How to connect to a machine which is only accesible via another machine using ssh
Hi,
Hope this is helpful I have the following situation:
My computer (globally accessible) <-> computer A (globally accessible) <-> computer B (only accessible to computer A)
So I can ssh/winscp to computer A from my computer but not to computer B directly from my computer. Nonetheless I can ssh from my computer to computer A and then ssh on from computer A to computer B.
What I wanted to do was winscp to computer B from my computer (as it has different nfs mounts to computer A) and here's how you can do it:
create shell script on computer A as follows:
save it somewhere sensible on computer A eg in
(and don't forget to
(user being your userid).
Then in winscp on my computer create a profile for computer B the same as the one used for logging into computer A (ie put computer A's IP address, password etc), but change the shell (Environment->SCP->Shell->Enter) to ~/bin/winscploginscript.
Now there is a further level of complication. You need to be able to ssh from comptuer A to computer B without having to supply a password. This can be achieved securely using ssh 2 RSA/DSA public key encryption. You'll need to read the ssh (and
And there you have it!
Hope this is helpful,
Paul
Hope this is helpful I have the following situation:
My computer (globally accessible) <-> computer A (globally accessible) <-> computer B (only accessible to computer A)
So I can ssh/winscp to computer A from my computer but not to computer B directly from my computer. Nonetheless I can ssh from my computer to computer A and then ssh on from computer A to computer B.
What I wanted to do was winscp to computer B from my computer (as it has different nfs mounts to computer A) and here's how you can do it:
create shell script on computer A as follows:
#!/bin/ksh #or your favourite shell ssh -2 user@comptuerB
~/bin/winscploginscript
(and don't forget to
chmod a+rx winscploginscript).
(user being your userid).
Then in winscp on my computer create a profile for computer B the same as the one used for logging into computer A (ie put computer A's IP address, password etc), but change the shell (Environment->SCP->Shell->Enter) to ~/bin/winscploginscript.
Now there is a further level of complication. You need to be able to ssh from comptuer A to computer B without having to supply a password. This can be achieved securely using ssh 2 RSA/DSA public key encryption. You'll need to read the ssh (and
ssh_keygen) man pages for details, but the gist of it is: type ssh_keygen -t dsa on computer A, then copy ~.ssh/id_dsa.pub from computer A to computer B ~/.ssh.authorized_keys.
And there you have it!
Hope this is helpful,
Paul
