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Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 08:22:35 -0400
From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
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To: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Prompting for the GPG password within Emacs
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On 07/08/2013 08:19 AM, Neil Roberts wrote:
> Heh, yeah, I also experimented with going down this route. I wrote an
> overly complicated C program=C2=B9 to manage launching the two SSH sess=
ions.
> That also only handles one session, but yeah I guess you could get the
> program to relaunch the SSH session after the first connection dies.

did you try the approach i outlined?  no extra C code needed, and if you
want it to re-launch, you should be able to just wrap it in a shell for
loop :)  You might also want a ,reuseaddr on the inner UNIX-LISTEN socat
endpoint.

> I came across some other people who were suggesting=C2=B2 to make socat=
 wrap
> the Unix socket in a TCP socket and then tunnel that over SSH. I guess
> that would be a simple way to support multiple sessions. However it
> seems a bit dodgy to open a port because you can't restrict the access
> by user.

I agree you don't want to wrap it up in a TCP socket, for exactly the
access control reasons you describe.

	--dkg



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