difficulty using mysql with ssh tunneling

I've set up an ssh tunnel between my local machine and a remote host (Fred) as follows: ssh daveg@fred -L 3306:localhost:3306 in an effort to access a remote mysql database running on fred. I've verified that the tunnel is working by telnetting into fred 3306 and seeing the mysql version info

Re: difficulty using mysql with ssh tunneling

At 18:20 -0800 2/26/02, David M. Goodstein wrote: I've set up an ssh tunnel between my local machine and a remote host (Fred) as follows: ssh daveg@fred -L 3306:localhost:3306 in an effort to access a remote mysql database running on fred. I've verified that the tunnel is working by