Nested SSH

[danchitnis]

Hello, I am trying to connect to an xpra server behind a firewall, and access is only available via an organization level SSH server. So I have first to do ssh gateway, then in that gateway, I have to do ssh my-server. Both these ssh connections require manual typing of the password. How can I get xpra working with this nested connection?

[danchitnis]

For anyone trying to do this first ssh as usual via the gateway to your my_server and start the xpra server:

xpra start :100 --start=xclock

then on the client outside the firewall run:

xpra attach --ssh="ssh -J [email protected]" ssh://[email protected]/100

You have to type in your password for each server, and then should attach to the xpra session on my_server

[totaam]

There are many ways of doing this.
Including:

• 2hop ssh patch #2041
• ssh proxy command
• Xpra/paramiko fails on ssh connections using ProxyJump #3745 (not implemented yet - though looks simple enough)
  etc..