[Gllug] Killing ssh tunnels

Dave Cridland dave at cridland.net
Tue Aug 27 12:28:51 UTC 2002


On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 12:06, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have got mutt to set up an ssh tunnel to a mailserver using the
> imap_preconnect option.  This starts ssh in the background so that when I
> exit mutt the tunnel is still around.
> What I would like to do is have a logout script (or something) that kills
> the ssh when I close the terminal.  But, I don't want closing a different
> terminal to kill off the ssh tunnel.  Can anyone suggest a way I can do
> this?

Possibly me being stupid, but why not use TLS for this?

Dave.


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