Bug 1984

Summary:	Add Unix Domain Socket Forwarding
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	spam.sub.atomic.fusion
Component:	ssh	Assignee:	Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	dkg
Priority:	P2
Version:	5.9p1
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description spam.sub.atomic.fusion 2012-02-22 18:21:51 AEDT

Requesting support for connections to/from UNIX domain sockets for the -D,-L, and -R. The support for hosting sshd on domain sockets and connecting to these would also seem beneficial.
Domain sockets offer great flexibility when compared with traditional, port based sockets. The OS can offer filesystem based access controls, rather than each application that uses the sockets having to implement it's own authentication/encryption scheme.
My specific use case is to securely forward the domain socket used to connect the Tor daemon and it's GUI controller, Vidalia. This way I could elegantly control the Tor daemon running on a headless server on my desktop.
A patch for OpenSSH4.7 is here: http://www.25thandclement.com/~william/projects/streamlocal.html

Comment 1 Daniel Kahn Gillmor 2012-03-06 04:38:41 AEDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1256 ***

Comment 2 Damien Miller 2016-08-02 10:41:21 AEST

Close all resolved bugs after 7.3p1 release