Reverse connection to SSH server

Question

Machine A is connected to the internet and is behind firewall so it cannot receive incoming connections. Machine B is open to the internet.

I want to be able to type commands into B and have them execute on A. Except it is A that has to reach out to B to establish the connection before B can send it commands.

Can this be done running SSHd on A and plain SSH client on B or do I need a combination of SSHd and SSH client on A (client to establish reverse tunnel pointing to SSHd).

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 03 '13 at 22:16

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If machine A can not be contacted "from the web" then it has to establish the conenction and open a tunnel. Then Machine B can contact Machine A over the tunnel.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/ssh-tunneling-poor-techies-vpn see the seciton on reversing the tunnel.

answered Nov 03 '13 at 22:16

coteyr

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There's a typo in your answer: "seciton ". – A.L Jan 14 '14 at 13:34

Reverse connection to SSH server

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