The spiped secure pipe daemon

Re:The spiped secure pipe daemon by ComputerGuru on Monday July 04, 2011 @01:25PM (#2727134)

Awesome work, Colin. I can think of more than a few uses for a lightweight and secure pipe forwarder. I also enjoyed reading your earlier article about keeping OpenSSL and Apache separate.

I have a question though - in the beginning of your post, you talk about STUD. Did you replace stunnel with STUD, or not just yet? Just wondering how that went.

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Re:The spiped secure pipe daemon by cperciva on Monday July 04, 2011 @02:56PM (#2727442)

Did you replace stunnel with STUD, or not just yet?

Not yet. That's waiting for the next time I context-switch into sysadmin mode.

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Re:The spiped secure pipe daemon by loevborg on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @02:56AM (#2728920)

I agree, this is very useful. Other than the advantages already noted, this is very easy to configure and you don't risk (potentially) misconfiguring your sshd in the process.

One thing this could be useful for is using a public server as a proxy to connect from a box behind a NAT to a box behind a different NAT. So you run spiped on the server and manually connect from client 1 to the server. Then you can SSH or VNC into client 1 from client 2 via the server. I wouldn't like to set this up using OpenSSH, but with spiped this seems easy.

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