

#Xshell ssh tunnel password#
You will be prompted to enter your user password for the client machine. Open up a terminal window on your client and issue the command:

What this will do is create an SSH tunnel from your client to the website, such that you can point your browser to and have it redirected to the destination. This is made possible, thanks to local port forwarding. You can do that using SSH port forwarding. Let’s say, for instance, you want to reach the Slashdot website, but you want to do so over an encrypted connection (for whatever reason). I’m going to make this very easy to understand. I will assume you have the necessary SSH tools installed on both local and remote machine and that you have access (via ssh) to the third party machine in question.
#Xshell ssh tunnel how to#
I want to show you how to use the first two types of port forwarding.

Now, as long as you leave that SSH terminal window open, all traffic to the Source Port on your localhost will be forwarded on to the Destination. Then click “Open” to connect to your gateway. Then supply the destination address (the server that is available from your SSH gateway, but not from your local machine) as “Destination” as shown in the following image:Ĭlick “Add”, which will set the configuration as shown: Enter the port that you want to connect to locally under “Source port”. In the left-hand side nav tree, click Connection > SSH > Tunnels. Next, select it from the Saved Sessions list and click ‘Load’ as shown below: Step 1 – Load the Gatewayįirst, if you have not already done so, create and save the SSH gateway server as you would any other. So I decided to spell it out step-by-step, for people like me who need that extra little bit of help. There’s lots of articles on SSH tunneling, and plenty that cover how to create a tunnel with PuTTY, so why write another one? Because I spent longer than I should have trying to get this working the other day, and failing due to a simple order of operations issue.
