[omniORB] Omniorb tunnel

[Sai-Lai Lo]

ssh is like a swiss knife. It can do a lot of things. In addition to using
it like a shell replacement, you can also set it up to relay data send to a
local port to another port on the remote machine. In doing so, data are
sent encrypted across the network.

To use ssh in the ORB context, say to talk to a server listening on machine X
port Y, one has to fire up ssh to connect to machine X and also tell it to
redirect data sent to port Z on the local host to X's port Y.
In order to make use of this feature, the ORB runtime on the client side
must know that in order to talk to machine X port Y, it has to connect to
local port Z. That is why I said one has to modify the ORB runtime to do
so.

Regards,

Sai-Lai


>>>>> Lars Immisch writes:

>> I don't know much about ssh, but what if you could trust the "sys-op" to
>> manually establish all ssh connections and just let the orb go about its
>> business as usual (no modification of the source)? Or do you need special a
>> socket API for ssh? This is pretty much how I use for instance CVS with ssh,
>> but then again, I don't know about the interia in CVS.
> cvs uses ssh as a rsh replacement; i.e. it starts an ssh process, invokes
> processes and reads the output back via a pipe. ssh is not invoked via an
> API, it is s shell, and in the easiest setup, ssh will prompt you for the
> password.

> Maybe you are thinking about SSL?




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