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Pure python SSH tunnels

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**Author**: **[Pahaz Blinov](https://github.com/pahaz)**

**Repo**: https://github.com/pahaz/sshtunnel/

Inspired by https://github.com/jmagnusson/bgtunnel but it doesn't work on Windows.
See also: https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/blob/master/demos/forward.py

Require `paramiko`.

# Install #

pip install sshtunnel

or

easy_install sshtunnel

# SSH tunnels to remote server #

Useful when you need to connect to local port on remote server through ssh
tunnel. It works by opening a port forwarding ssh connection in the
background, using threads. The connection(s) are closed when explicitly
calling the `close` method of the returned SSHTunnelForwarder object.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

|
-------------+ | +----------+ +---------
LOCAL | | | REMOTE | | PRIVATE
SERVER | <== SSH ========> | SERVER | <== local ==> | SERVER
-------------+ | +----------+ +---------
|
FIREWALL

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Fig1: How to connect to PRIVATE SERVER throw SSH tunnel.


## Ex 1: ##

from sshtunnel import SSHTunnelForwarder

server = SSHTunnelForwarder(
('pahaz.urfuclub.ru', 22),
ssh_username="pahaz",
ssh_password="secret",
remote_bind_address=('127.0.0.1', 5555))

server.start()

print(server.local_bind_port)
# work with `SECRET SERVICE` throw `server.local_bind_port`.

server.stop()

# Ex 2: ##

Example of a port forwarding for the Vagrant MySQL local port:

from sshtunnel import SSHTunnelForwarder
from time import sleep

with SSHTunnelForwarder(
('localhost', 2222),
ssh_username="vagrant",
ssh_password="vagrant",
remote_bind_address=('127.0.0.1', 3306)) as server:

print(server.local_bind_port)
while True:
# press Ctrl-C for stopping
sleep(1)

print('FINISH!')

Or simple use CLI:

python -m sshtunnel -U vagrant -P vagrant -L :3306 -R 127.0.0.1:3306 -p 2222 localhost


# API/arguments #

## `SSHTunnelForwarder` arguments ##

This is an incomplete list of arguments. See `__init__()` method of `SSHTunnelForwarder` class in [sshtunnel.py](sshtunnel.py) for a full list.

### `ssh_proxy = None`

Accepts a [paramiko.ProxyCommand](http://paramiko-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api/proxy.html) object which all SSH traffic will be passed through. See either the [paramiko.ProxyCommand documentation](http://paramiko-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api/proxy.html) or `ProxyCommand` in `ssh_config(5)` for more information.

Note `ssh_proxy` overrides any `ProxyCommand` sourced from the user's `ssh_config`.

Note `ssh_proxy` is ignored if `ssh_proxy_enabled != True`.

### `ssh_proxy_enabled = True`

If true (default) and the user's `ssh_config` file contains a `ProxyCommand` directive that matches the specified `ssh_address_or_host` (or first positional argument) `SSHTunnelForwarder` will create a [paramiko.ProxyCommand](http://paramiko-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api/proxy.html) object which all SSH traffic will be passed through. See the [ssh_proxy](#ssh_proxy) argument for more details.


# CONTRIBUTORS #

- [Cameron Maske](https://github.com/cameronmaske)
- [Gustavo Machado](https://github.com/gdmachado)
- [Colin Jermain](https://github.com/cjermain)
- [J.M. Fernández](https://github.com/fernandezcuesta) - (big thanks!)
- [Lewis Thompson](https://github.com/lewisthompson)
- [Erik Rogers](https://github.com/ewrogers)
- [Mart Sõmermaa](https://github.com/mrts)

# TODO #

- Write tests!

# CHANGELOG #

## work in progres ##
- ??

## v.0.0.5 ##
- add `ssh_proxy` argument, as well as `ssh_config(5)` `ProxyCommand` support (lewisthompson)
- add some python 2.6 compatibility fixes (mrts)
- `paramiko.transport` inherits handlers of loggers passed to `SSHTunnelForwarder` (fernandezcuesta)
- fix #34, #33, code style and docs (fernandezcuesta)
- add tests (pahaz)
- add CI integration (pahaz)

## v.0.0.4.4 ##

- fix issuse [#24](https://github.com/pahaz/sshtunnel/issues/24) - hide ssh password in logs (pahaz)

## v.0.0.4.3 ##

- fix default port issuse [#19](https://github.com/pahaz/sshtunnel/issues/19) (pahaz)

## v.0.0.4.2 ##
- fix Thread.daemon mode for Python < 3.3 [#16](https://github.com/pahaz/sshtunnel/issues/16), [#21](https://github.com/pahaz/sshtunnel/issues/21) (lewisthompson, ewrogers)

## v.0.0.4.1 ##
- fix CLI issues/13 (pahaz)

## v.0.0.4 ##
- daemon mode by default for all threads (fernandezcuesta, pahaz) - *incompatible*
- move `make_ssh_forward_server` to `SSHTunnelForwarder.make_ssh_forward_server` (pahaz, fernandezcuesta) - *incompatible*
- move `make_ssh_forward_handler` to `SSHTunnelForwarder.make_ssh_forward_handler_class` (pahaz, fernandezcuesta) - *incompatible*
- rename `open` to `open_tunnel` (fernandezcuesta) - *incompatible*
- add CLI interface (fernandezcuesta)
- support opening several tunnels at once (fernandezcuesta)
- improve stability and readability (fernandezcuesta, pahaz)
- improve logging (fernandezcuesta, pahaz)
- add `raise_exception_if_any_forwarder_have_a_problem` argument for opening several tunnels at once (pahaz)
- add `ssh_config_file` argument support (fernandezcuesta)
- add Python 3 support (fernandezcuesta, pahaz)

## v.0.0.3 ##
- add `threaded` options (cameronmaske)
- fix exception error message, correctly printing destination address (gdmachado)
- fix pip install fails (cjermain, pahaz)

## v.0.0.1 ##
- `SSHTunnelForwarder` class (pahaz)
- `open` function (pahaz)

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