Answering my own question (probably the best way)...
I solved this problem by figuring out how to execute the command
inside the rc script as a non-root user. Like so:
autossh_start()
{
echo "${command} ${command_args}"
su admin -c "${command} ${command_args}"
echo "started autossh"
}
Thi
John Almberg wrote:
Now I just need to figure out how to start it on reboot, but that is
something I've been meaning to learn, anyway, so I don't mind.
I hope you guys will bear with me just a little more... I have spent
the day trying to figure out how to create an rc script for autossh.
Ver
Now I just need to figure out how to start it on reboot, but that
is something I've been meaning to learn, anyway, so I don't mind.
I hope you guys will bear with me just a little more... I have
spent the day trying to figure out how to create an rc script for
autossh. Very cool, and not as
John Almberg said the following on 2008-09-23 15:54:
I have two FreeBSD machines. One is a application server, the other a
database server running mysql. These machines are in two different
locations. I'd like to allow the application server to access mysql
through an SSH tunnel.
Being a newb
Now I just need to figure out how to start it on reboot, but that
is something I've been meaning to learn, anyway, so I don't mind.
I hope you guys will bear with me just a little more... I have spent
the day trying to figure out how to create an rc script for autossh.
Very cool, and not as
On Oct 21, 2008, at 3:44 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
John Almberg wrote:
I do know that Mysql supports SSL... somehow this got discounted
early in the discussion, perhaps mistakenly?
I believe the thinking was that although MySQL claims to support SSL,
it does in fact make a pretty bodge of i
On Oct 20, 2008, at 11:09 PM, Peter Boosten wrote:
John Almberg wrote:
I tried this, and not surprisingly, it didn't work. Now I'm trying to
debug it...
Maybe some mixup in the keys? In my example ssh tries to read the
private key of root on the connecting server, so the server where the
d
John Almberg wrote:
I do know that Mysql supports SSL... somehow this got discounted early
in the discussion, perhaps mistakenly?
I believe the thinking was that although MySQL claims to support SSL,
it does in fact make a pretty bodge of it, and a more effective approach
is to pipe MySQL tra
John Almberg wrote:
>
> Where 'admin' is the user I am logging into on the remote machine, and
> 'example.com' is the hostname of the remote machine. I guess equivalent
> to the following?
>
> ttyv7 "/usr/bin/ssh -nNTx -R 3306:127.0.0.1:33006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>/dev/null 2>&1"unknown on
Peter Boosten wrote:
> John Almberg wrote:
>> I tried this, and not surprisingly, it didn't work. Now I'm trying to
>> debug it...
>>
>
> Maybe some mixup in the keys? In my example ssh tries to read the
> private key of root on the connecting server, so the server where the
> database is locate
John Almberg wrote:
>
> I tried this, and not surprisingly, it didn't work. Now I'm trying to
> debug it...
>
Maybe some mixup in the keys? In my example ssh tries to read the
private key of root on the connecting server, so the server where the
database is located, because init is run as root.
On Oct 20, 2008, at 5:21 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 03:25:23PM -0400, John Almberg wrote:
On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
John Almberg wrote:
I have two FreeBSD machines. One is a application server, the
other a
database server running mysql. Th
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 03:25:23PM -0400, John Almberg wrote:
> On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
>> John Almberg wrote:
>>> I have two FreeBSD machines. One is a application server, the other a
>>> database server running mysql. These machines are in two different
>>> locations.
On Oct 20, 2008, at 4:50 PM, John Almberg wrote:
After a few hours of work today, I have all this working
perfectly. I'm
using autossh to automatically create and monitor the ssh tunnel,
and I
can make mysql connections through the tunnel with no problems.
Very cool.
And that's through
After a few hours of work today, I have all this working
perfectly. I'm
using autossh to automatically create and monitor the ssh tunnel,
and I
can make mysql connections through the tunnel with no problems.
Very cool.
And that's through PF firewalls on both machines, which added
flavor
John Almberg wrote:
>
> On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
>
>> John Almberg wrote:
>>> I have two FreeBSD machines. One is a application server, the other a
>>> database server running mysql. These machines are in two different
>>> locations. I'd like to allow the application s
On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
John Almberg wrote:
I have two FreeBSD machines. One is a application server, the other a
database server running mysql. These machines are in two different
locations. I'd like to allow the application server to access mysql
through an SSH t
On Sep 23, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Mel wrote:
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 15:54:10 John Almberg wrote:
I have two FreeBSD machines. One is a application server, the other a
database server running mysql. These machines are in two different
locations. I'd like to allow the application server to acc
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 15:54:10 John Almberg wrote:
> I have two FreeBSD machines. One is a application server, the other a
> database server running mysql. These machines are in two different
> locations. I'd like to allow the application server to access mysql
> through an SSH tunnel.
> A
John Almberg wrote:
> I have two FreeBSD machines. One is a application server, the other a
> database server running mysql. These machines are in two different
> locations. I'd like to allow the application server to access mysql
> through an SSH tunnel.
>
> Being a newbie admin, I've never set up
I have two FreeBSD machines. One is a application server, the other a
database server running mysql. These machines are in two different
locations. I'd like to allow the application server to access mysql
through an SSH tunnel.
Being a newbie admin, I've never set up an SSH tunnel. I've bee
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