Bug 2716

Created attachment 2977 [details]
Add "permitlisten" support for -R style forward

Hi there,

my apologies for duplicating this message here. I saw too late that there is also a public bug tracker.

This patch adds support for per-key restriction of -R style forwards
via a "permitlisten"-option in the authorized_keys file -- similar to
the "permitopen"-option for -L style forwards.

This is desirable if you want to have restricted accounts/keys that
can only be used for -R style forwards on certain ports.

With this example authorized_keys file:
  restrict,permitlisten="localhost:8080" ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nza...

This is allowed:
$ ssh -R 8080:localhost:80 root at localhost -N

While this is not allowed (note port 8081):
$ ssh -R 8081:localhost:80 root at localhost -N
Error: remote port forwarding failed for listen port 8081

This is a preliminary patch (no support for a servconf option
"PermitListen" yet), because I wanted to get early feedback before
continuing. 

Do you think this approach is correct? Would this be a desirable
feature? Is "permitlisten" the correct name for this? Or would 
"permitropen", "permitremoteopen" be better suited?

Best,
Philipp Heckel

WIP branch/pull:
https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/pull/65

Mailing list:
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