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