SSH Tips and Tricks
SSH Tips and Tricks
Since I joined Charm, I’ve been working and learning more about SSH, and I thought I would share a few quick tips and tricks with you. Forward Yubikey Agent If you use a Yubikey (you should), you can use it in your remotes by having the key in a SSH agent and forwarding it. To manage the agent, I st...
- sshfs (mount a remote file system locally)
- sshuttle (tunnel your traffic over SSH, ephemeral VPN)
- mirror a remote port to a local port (I use this to manage syncthing on my server)
Nice tips! Personally will use SSH aliases and canonicalised hostnames.
Other topics covered in post:
- Forward Yubikey Agent
- Reuse connections
- SSH straight into tmux
- Alias commonly used hosts
- Do not add testing stuff to
~/.ssh/known_hosts - Make connections last longer
- Canonicalize hostnames
- Yubikey and GitHub, without touching it every time
My favorite (aside from tunneling) has been using ssh as a SOCKS proxy.
https://ma.ttias.be/socks-proxy-linux-ssh-bypass-content-filters/
Combine with "foxyproxy" to send all non-corporate-Internet" connections over your own ssh tunnel to keep personal web traffic private or to access services on your home network without needing a vpn.
You can route things over ssh like RDP for example. Used that a few times to remote in too a desktop at home. Can't install a VPN on most company and school devices. But ssh is build in to windows.
If you use Windows, I highly recommend trying Mobaxterm.