[Gllug] Port forwarding over ssh...

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Hi all,

I'm currently testing the FreeNAS box I mentioned I was about to build a
couple of weeks ago. It's going quite well but I've got a little stuck
on tunneling over SSH. I have ssh setup with certs and have disabled
interactive (challenge response) logons. All seems well with that and I
can login with no problems but now I'd like to be able to access the
NAS's web GUI via an ssh tunnel (tunneling being a new thing to me).

The tutorial I read* said to simply SSH in using the -D option to
specify a local port that will then act as a local socks proxy so I
typed this...

ssh -p 12345 -D 9999 username at 192.168.1.123

Sure enough it logged me in and I get a bash prompt. Sadly though when I
set firefox's proxy settings to localhost:9999 I can't get anything back
from the URL http://localhost/ where, AFAICT, I should get back the
NAS's admin login page.

I don't know whether this is because the SSH/SOCKS tunnel isn't actually
up and running, whether running the above command should actually give
me a prompt at all, whether the URL I am entering into firefox isn't
right or if the firefox proxy settings are actually correct so I'm not
sure how to proceed. I'd appreciate some suggestions as to how to
check/rule out some of the above, or a simple correction if I've made a
schoolboy error.

Many thanks,

Roger.



*this one is for drupal but I figure it should apply generally...
http://www.johnandcailin.com/blog/john/beef-your-drupal-security-apache-modrewrite-and-ssh
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