Re: pgAccess via ssh?

operationsengineer1(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote:
> [...]
> Example:
> First, set up the tunnel in one terminal...
> ssh -L 4001:remotehost:5432 user(at)remotehost
>
> Then, in another terminal, use psql to connect to the local port
> (4001) specified in the ssh command:
> psql -h localhost -p 4001 mydatabase

That's exactly what I explained in a previous message in
this thread.

> Assuming this works, can one then use pgaccess to to "tunnel" through
> the ssh tunnel? Is just changing the port to 4001 instead of 5432
> enough to get access to the remote db through pgaccess' login screen?

Yes, you connect to the local port (in the above example it
would be port 4001 on localhost). The ssh tunnel will then
pick it up and forward it to port 5432 on the remote host.
For the PostgreSQL server (which must have been configured
to accept TCP conections), the incoming connection will
appear as if it comes from localhost.

See my earlier message in this thread ...

Best regards
Oliver

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