Tip: you can group the flags together like so: ssh -fND 12345 foo@bar.example.co...

jjcm on Dec 3, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Protect yourself from FireSheep with Amazon EC2 + ...

Tip: you can group the flags together like so:

    ssh -fND 12345 foo@bar.example.com

Also, the -f flag will cause it to fail if you don't have passwordless auth set up. If you don't have it set to use private/public key pairs, just tunnel like so:

    ssh -ND 12345 foo@bar.example.com

jey on Dec 4, 2010 [–]

Nah, -f will prompt for password before backgrounding the process.