[olug] restricting ports on SSH forwarding

Justin Reiners justin at hotlinesinc.com
Thu May 28 19:19:35 CDT 2020


Here's a good write-up on restricting access, hope it helps

https://blog.tinned-software.net/restrict-ssh-access-to-port-forwarding-to-one-specific-port/

On Thu, May 28, 2020, 6:41 PM Lou Duchez <lou at paprikash.com> wrote:

> So SSH forwarding is a dandy way to get data to travel back and forth
> over a secure encrypted connection.  The only problem I'm aware of is,
> if I open up SSH port forwarding on my server to allow access to port
> 11111, there's nothing stopping a user from using the same SSH
> connection get at port 22222.
>
> ... or is there?  Any thoughts on how to limit the port forwarding on an
> SSH connection?  In particular I'm using freeSSHd on a Windows server,
> so if anyone knows anything about that, that would help.
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