Determining the port assigned by -R 0

[Glenn Maynard]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> wrote:

>  It's easier if you use the multiplexing socket.
>
> ssh -O forward -R0:xxx:yyy host
>
> will print the allocated port to stdout on success.
>

I suppose that works, but it'd be better to do this server-side.  That way,
the script run on the server doesn't have to trust the client to pass along
correct information.  For example, if a client tries forwarding thousands of
ports, the script could reliably detect that and close the connection.
(This is a remote diagnostics script; the remote client is untrusted.)

By the way, it'd be helpful to be able to specify eg. "PermitOpen none"; I
ended up arriving at the same hack that this guy used:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543683.  It's minor, but
it'd be nice to be able to do this correctly.

-- 
Glenn Maynard