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SSH Tunnel Password Based Auto Reconnect - venam - 25-01-2016
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-Password-Based-Auto-Reconnect
If you have a better one it would be nice to know.
RE: SSH Tunnel Password Based Auto Reconnect - xero - 25-01-2016
you could write an expect(1) script that looks for disconnects. or if you have admin access to the remotes you could use mosh.
RE: SSH Tunnel Password Based Auto Reconnect - z3bra - 25-01-2016
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...
RE: SSH Tunnel Password Based Auto Reconnect - xero - 25-01-2016
(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.