[Bug 760] GatewayPorts clarification in _config man pages
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Mon Nov 17 03:30:31 EST 2003
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760
Summary: GatewayPorts clarification in _config man pages
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Version: 3.7p1
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: P2
Component: Documentation
AssignedTo: openssh-bugs at mindrot.org
ReportedBy: nathanst at ontko.com
I recently tried to use port forwarding and ran in to some confusion over the
GatewayPorts setting. I think it would be helpful to update the _config man
pages with the following clarifications:
ssh_config GatewayPorts section
* (at least for "remote" port forwardings requested using "ssh -R") this
parameter doesn't directly control which address is used for the port
bindings, but instead controls whether or not the client requests
that the remote server do this -- and that the remote server must
be configured to allow this option or it will silently be ignored.
* It might be good to mention that the "-g" option to ssh is equivalent to
GatewayPorts=yes .
sshd_config GatewayPorts section
* This should be reworded to make clear that GatewayPorts in the
server config controls whether or not clients are _allowed_ to
request wildcard fowardings, but even with this set to Yes
the actual loopback v.s. wildcard setting will be based on the
setting requested by the client.
* If I my understanding of the port-forwarding process is correct,
this setting only applies to "remote" port forwardings ("ssh -R")
which are connecting in to this SSH daemon.
I looked in the WebCVS versions of ssh_config.5 and sshd_config.5 and it
looks like these man page paragraphs still have the same text as the OpenSSH 3.4
release that I am using, so hopefully these changes haven't already been made.
Thanks.
Nathan
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