Re: feature request - automatic SSH tunnels - Mailing list pgadmin-support

From Guillaume Lelarge
Subject Re: feature request - automatic SSH tunnels
Date
Msg-id 1365190626.3032.4.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to feature request - automatic SSH tunnels  (Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net>)
Responses Re: feature request - automatic SSH tunnels
List pgadmin-support
On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 11:30 -0700, Darren Duncan wrote:
> I have a feature request for pgAdmin that would help me and other users a lot, 
> and I don't see it on your roadmap or TODO.
> 
> This is to add to Server Registration extra fields for configuring an SSH tunnel 
> so that users can use pgAdmin over an SSH tunnel without having to separately 
> setup the tunnel outside pgAdmin.
> 
> For example, currently users have to do something like this on the command-line 
> when they want to use pgAdmin over a tunnel:
> 
>    ssh -L 5423:localhost:5432 postgres@mydomain.com
> 
> But ideally pgAdmin would set that up the tunnel automatically when you do a 
> Connect.
> 
> Even MySQL Workbench has supported this for a few years at least.
> 
> How difficult would it be to add this feature, and is there any reason not to?
> 
> Would it help if I monetarily sponsored an automatic SSH tunnel feature?
> 
> I'm hoping this could make it into 1.18.0 at the latest, if not 1.16.x.
> 

Surely not 1.16 as it's already out, and only bugfixes are done to this
release.

1.18, could be. I remember that one of the EDB's guy was working on
this. Not sure what the status of this patch is though.


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