[omniORB] Omniorb tunnel

[Haarek Ryeng]

I don't know much about ssh, but what if you could trust the "sys-op" to manually establish all ssh connections and just let the orb go about its business as usual (no
modification of the source)? Or do you need special a socket API for ssh? This is pretty much how I use for instance CVS with ssh, but then again, I don't know about the
interia in CVS.

-HR

Sai-Lai Lo wrote:

> >>>>> Marco Catunda writes:
>
> >       I am trying to use omniorb on ssh tunnel security.
> >       Can I do it with omniorb? How?
>
> You can't do this without modifying the source.
>
> If you still want to have a go, look at src/lib/orbcore/tcpSocketMTfactory.cc
>
> The function realConnect() is called when the ORB wants to open a
> connection. Here you can add a hook to your code which essentially have to:
>
> 1. Check if the destination is one of those you want to tunnel through ssh
> 2. If 1 is yes, start ssh with the proper tunnel setup
> 3. Then connect to the local port where you have asked ssh to set up.
>
> Of course you have to do other housekeeping, such as to keep track of the
> ssh processes you have forked and when to clean them up, etc.
>
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