On 01/26/2011 12:55 AM, Xavier Claessens wrote: > Le mardi 25 janvier 2011 à 21:44 -0800, Zac Medico a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> I'm looking for client/service package similar to the existing >> ssh-contact package [1], but for the purpose of forwarding miscellaneous >> ports. The service should include a way to control which contacts are >> allowed to forward which ports. Is anyone aware if something like this >> already exists, or is anyone interested in working on something like >> this? I'd be willing to start a project like this myself, if necessary. > > You could do an ssh tunnel using ssh-contact. It's not yet possible to > do this as ssh-contact CLI does not let you pass all options to the ssh > client, but that should be trivial to patch. I would appreciate such > contribution! Something like: > > ssh-contact [OPTIONS] -- [OPTIONS FOR SSH CLIENT]
Thanks, I like that idea. I've filed bug 33579 [1] with a patch. >> Also, I'd like it to be possible for one person logged into two >> different computers simultaneously (with the same jid but different >> resources) to use this package to forward ports between these two >> computers. I was hoping that Connection.Interface.Resources might be >> useful for this purpose [2]. Can anyone comment on the feasibility of this? > > I don't think it is possible to create a Tube between 2 resources of the > same contact. I agree that would be great, but I'm not sure that's > technically possible with XMPP... I'm not expert on this though. I might try experimenting with various XMPP clients/servers to see if they support messages of this sort. [1] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33579 Thanks, Zac _______________________________________________ telepathy mailing list telepathy@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy