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**Author**: `Pahaz Blinov`_
**Repo**: https://github.com/pahaz/sshtunnel/
Inspired by https://github.com/jmagnusson/bgtunnel, but it 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 <https://github.com/pahaz/sshtunnel>`_ and run::
python setup.py install
Testing the package
-------------------
In order to run the tests you first need
`tox <https://testrun.org/tox/latest/>`_ 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 connect to a service blocked by a firewall through SSH tunnel.
If allowed by the SSH server, it is also possible to reach a private server
(from the perspective of ``REMOTE SERVER``) not directly visible from the
outside (``LOCAL CLIENT``'s perspective). ::
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
-------------+ | +----------+ +---------
LOCAL | | | REMOTE | | PRIVATE
CLIENT | <== SSH ========> | SERVER | <== local ==> | SERVER
-------------+ | +----------+ +---------
|
FIREWALL (only port 443 is open)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
**Fig2**: How to connect to ``PRIVATE SERVER`` through SSH tunnel.
Usage examples
==============
API allows either initializing the tunnel and starting it or using a ``with``
context, which will take care of starting **and stopping** the tunnel:
Example 1
---------
Code corresponding to **Fig1** above follows, given remote server's address is
``pahaz.urfuclub.ru``, password authentication and randomly assigned local bind
port.
.. code-block:: py
from sshtunnel import SSHTunnelForwarder
server = SSHTunnelForwarder(
'pahaz.urfuclub.ru',
ssh_username="pahaz",
ssh_password="secret",
remote_bind_address=('127.0.0.1', 8080)
)
server.start()
print(server.local_bind_port) # show assigned local port
# work with `SECRET SERVICE` through `server.local_bind_port`.
server.stop()
Example 2
---------
Example of a port forwarding to a private server not directly reachable,
assuming password protected pkey authentication, remote server's SSH service is
listening on port 443 and that port is open in the firewall (**Fig2**):
.. code-block:: py
import paramiko
from sshtunnel import SSHTunnelForwarder
with SSHTunnelForwarder(
(REMOTE_SERVER_IP, 443),
ssh_username="",
ssh_pkey="/var/ssh/rsa_key",
ssh_private_key_password="secret",
remote_bind_address=(PRIVATE_SERVER_IP, 22),
local_bind_address=('0.0.0.0', 10022)
) as tunnel:
client = paramiko.SSHClient()
client.load_system_host_keys()
client.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
client.connect('127.0.0.1', 10022)
# do some operations with client session
client.close()
print('FINISH!')
Example 3
---------
Example of a port forwarding for the Vagrant MySQL local port:
.. code-block:: py
from sshtunnel import SSHTunnelForwarder
from time import sleep
with SSHTunnelForwarder(
('localhost', 2222),
ssh_username="vagrant",
ssh_password="vagrant",
remote_bind_address=('127.0.0.1', 3306)
) as server:
print(server.local_bind_port)
while True:
# press Ctrl-C for stopping
sleep(1)
print('FINISH!')
Or simply using the CLI:
.. code-block:: console
(bash)$ python -m sshtunnel -U vagrant -P vagrant -L :3306 -R 127.0.0.1:3306 -p 2222 localhost
CLI usage
=========
::
$ sshtunnel --help
usage: sshtunnel [-h] [-U SSH_USERNAME] [-p SSH_PORT] [-P SSH_PASSWORD] -R
IP:PORT [IP:PORT ...] [-L [IP:PORT [IP:PORT ...]]]
[-k SSH_HOST_KEY] [-K KEY_FILE] [-S KEY_PASSWORD] [-t] [-v]
[-V] [-x IP:PORT] [-c SSH_CONFIG_FILE] [-z] [-n] [-d [FOLDER [FOLDER ...]]]
ssh_address
Pure python ssh tunnel utils
Version 0.1.4
positional arguments:
ssh_address SSH server IP address (GW for SSH tunnels)
set with "-- ssh_address" if immediately after -R or -L
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-U SSH_USERNAME, --username SSH_USERNAME
SSH server account username
-p SSH_PORT, --server_port SSH_PORT
SSH server TCP port (default: 22)
-P SSH_PASSWORD, --password SSH_PASSWORD
SSH server account password
-R IP:PORT [IP:PORT ...], --remote_bind_address IP:PORT [IP:PORT ...]
Remote bind address sequence: ip_1:port_1 ip_2:port_2 ... ip_n:port_n
Equivalent to ssh -Lxxxx:IP_ADDRESS:PORT
If port is omitted, defaults to 22.
Example: -R 10.10.10.10: 10.10.10.10:5900
-L [IP:PORT [IP:PORT ...]], --local_bind_address [IP:PORT [IP:PORT ...]]
Local bind address sequence: ip_1:port_1 ip_2:port_2 ... ip_n:port_n
Elements may also be valid UNIX socket domains:
/tmp/foo.sock /tmp/bar.sock ... /tmp/baz.sock
Equivalent to ssh -LPORT:xxxxxxxxx:xxxx, being the local IP address optional.
By default it will listen in all interfaces (0.0.0.0) and choose a random port.
Example: -L :40000
-k SSH_HOST_KEY, --ssh_host_key SSH_HOST_KEY
Gateway's host key
-K KEY_FILE, --private_key_file KEY_FILE
RSA/DSS/ECDSA private key file
-S KEY_PASSWORD, --private_key_password KEY_PASSWORD
RSA/DSS/ECDSA private key password
-t, --threaded Allow concurrent connections to each tunnel
-v, --verbose Increase output verbosity (default: ERROR)
-V, --version Show version number and quit
-x IP:PORT, --proxy IP:PORT
IP and port of SSH proxy to destination
-c SSH_CONFIG_FILE, --config SSH_CONFIG_FILE
SSH configuration file, defaults to ~/.ssh/config
-z, --compress Request server for compression over SSH transport
-n, --noagent Disable looking for keys from an SSH agent
-d [FOLDER [FOLDER ...]], --host_pkey_directories [FOLDER [FOLDER ...]]
List of directories where SSH pkeys (in the format `id_*`) may be found
.. _Pahaz Blinov: https://github.com/pahaz
.. _sshtunnel: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sshtunnel
.. _paramiko: http://www.paramiko.org/
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