Suggestion for -G option for remote ports to be forwarded, analogous to -g option for local ports (-L) to be forwarded.

[Damien Miller]

search for "GatewayPorts" in man sshd_config.

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Michael Mess wrote:

> When forwarding local ports with -L these ports can be made accessible
> to the local net with the -g option.
> 
> For remote ports, forwarded with -R this option does not apply. It would
> be nice to have a -G option which does the same on the remote machine
> for the remote net, depending on the remote users rights.
> 
> On the server site it should be configurable, on which
> networks/addresses the forwarded ports should be (un)available if the -G
> option is specified, this should default to the remote users rights:
> If the remote user (the user logged in on the remote site) can do a "ssh
> -g", the local user should be able to use the -G option.
> This would make sense, because a logged in remote user who can do "ssh
> -g" could login to itself with "ssh -g", forwarding another port,
> accessible by everywhere to the only local accessable port already
> forwarded by the ssh session created when logging in from local to remote.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michael
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