Sshtunnel - SSH Tunnels To Remote Server

Author: Pahaz Repo: https://github.com/pahaz/sshtunnel/ Inspired by https://github.com/jmagnusson/bgtunnel, which doesn't work on Windows. See also: https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/blob/master/demos/forward.py Requirements paramiko Installation sshtunnel is on PyPI, so simply run: pip install sshtunnel or easy_install sshtunnel or conda install -c conda-forge sshtunnel to have it installed in your environment. For installing from source, clone the repo and run: python setup.py install Testing the package In order to run the tests you first need tox and run: python setup.py test Usage scenarios One of the typical scenarios where sshtunnel is helpful is depicted in the figure below. User may need to connect a port of a remote server (i.e. 8080) where only SSH port (usually port 22) is reachable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------+ | +----------+ LOCAL | | | REMOTE | :22 SSH CLIENT | <== SSH ========> | SERVER | :8080 web service -------------+ | +----------+ | FIREWALL (only port 22 is open) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fig1: How to....