bgtunnel 0.2.0

Initiate SSH tunnels in the background

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Author: Jacob Magnusson. [Follow me on Twitter][twitter]

## What is this?

bgtunnel is a python module for easily creating ssh tunnels in the background, from within python. An example use case is when you want to access a remote database. With bgtunnel all you need is ssh access to the remote machine and python installed.

## Installation

Install using pip:

pip install bgtunnel

## Dependencies

python 2.6, 2.7 or 3.3

## Testing

Clone the repo:

git clone [e-mail]:jmagnusson/bgtunnel.git

Install requirements for testing:

pip install -r test_requirements.txt

Ensure that you have all python versions listed in tox.ini then to run the tests simply issue the following:

tox

## Documentation [docs]

[twitter]: https://twitter.com/pyjacob [docs]: https://github.com/jmagnusson/bgtunnel