How to create a SSL tunnel

This blog post assumes that ssl is already installed.

The basic command to create an SSL tunnel is:

ssh -L [local-ip-address:]local-port:dest-host:dest-port [user@]ssh-server

where:

• local-ip-address to use. If omitted, localhost is used
• local-port that the tunnel will listen to
• dest-host is the name of the host to connect to from the ssh-server
• dest-port is the dest-host port to connect to from the ssh-server
• user is the username to use to connect to the ssh-server
• ssh-server is the name of the ssh host