Hello fellow Nixers,
Yesterday, I searched for something that could auto-reconnect my ssh tunnels when using password based encryption.

I did not find anything useful. Everyone use key-based auth.
In my specific case I can't setup my key on the hosts.

When everything fails you write your own solution and that's what I did: https://github.com/venam/SSH-Tunnel-Pass...-Reconnect

If you have a better one it would be nice to know.

you could write an expect(1) script that looks for disconnects. or if you have admin access to the remotes you could use mosh.

Plot twist: mosh doesn't need root access. You can just build a static binary, and copy it in your $PATH, or specify the path to the binary on the remote server when starting the client.

But mosh relies on ncurses...

(25-01-2016, 03:42 PM)z3bra Wrote: You can just build a static binary, and copy it in your $PATH, or specify the path to the binary on the remote server when starting the client.

touche. good to know.