Hello, I want to use dropbear just to setup port forwarding and then drop to the background, e.g. like so
ssh -f -N -T -y -K 20 -I 7200 -R 22222:localhost:22 remote.host.com the problem is that the code to background dropbear (in cli-session.c, line 253) is before the setup of the port forwarding (just a few lines down) so in case port forwarding setup fails, the caller of ssh has no way to find out that port forwarding failed by checking the exit code I think the code to background dropbear should be be delayed until local and remote port forwarding has succedded (esp. in -N is given) for remote connection this is somewhat tricky as the remote host has to open the ports and confirm back; so the backgrounding would need to go into cli_recv_msg_request_success() after having processed the last remote forward port in the list regards, p. -- Peter Meerwald +43-664-2444418 (mobile)
