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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/html/ssh-tunnels.html b/doc/src/sgml/html/ssh-tunnels.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..01b31d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/src/sgml/html/ssh-tunnels.html @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>19.11. Secure TCP/IP Connections with SSH Tunnels</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" /><link rev="made" href="pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /><link rel="prev" href="gssapi-enc.html" title="19.10. Secure TCP/IP Connections with GSSAPI Encryption" /><link rel="next" href="event-log-registration.html" title="19.12. Registering Event Log on Windows" /></head><body id="docContent" class="container-fluid col-10"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="5" align="center">19.11. Secure TCP/IP Connections with <span class="application">SSH</span> Tunnels</th></tr><tr><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gssapi-enc.html" title="19.10. Secure TCP/IP Connections with GSSAPI Encryption">Prev</a> </td><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="u" href="runtime.html" title="Chapter 19. Server Setup and Operation">Up</a></td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 19. Server Setup and Operation</th><td width="10%" align="right"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 15.4 Documentation">Home</a></td><td width="10%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="event-log-registration.html" title="19.12. Registering Event Log on Windows">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="sect1" id="SSH-TUNNELS"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">19.11. Secure TCP/IP Connections with <span class="application">SSH</span> Tunnels</h2></div></div></div><a id="id-1.6.6.14.2" class="indexterm"></a><p> + It is possible to use <span class="application">SSH</span> to encrypt the network + connection between clients and a + <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> server. Done properly, this + provides an adequately secure network connection, even for non-SSL-capable + clients. + </p><p> + First make sure that an <span class="application">SSH</span> server is + running properly on the same machine as the + <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> server and that you can log in using + <code class="command">ssh</code> as some user; you then can establish a + secure tunnel to the remote server. A secure tunnel listens on a + local port and forwards all traffic to a port on the remote machine. + Traffic sent to the remote port can arrive on its + <code class="literal">localhost</code> address, or different bind + address if desired; it does not appear as coming from your + local machine. This command creates a secure tunnel from the client + machine to the remote machine <code class="literal">foo.com</code>: +</p><pre class="programlisting"> +ssh -L 63333:localhost:5432 joe@foo.com +</pre><p> + The first number in the <code class="option">-L</code> argument, 63333, is the + local port number of the tunnel; it can be any unused port. (IANA + reserves ports 49152 through 65535 for private use.) The name or IP + address after this is the remote bind address you are connecting to, + i.e., <code class="literal">localhost</code>, which is the default. The second + number, 5432, is the remote end of the tunnel, e.g., the port number + your database server is using. In order to connect to the database + server using this tunnel, you connect to port 63333 on the local + machine: +</p><pre class="programlisting"> +psql -h localhost -p 63333 postgres +</pre><p> + To the database server it will then look as though you are + user <code class="literal">joe</code> on host <code class="literal">foo.com</code> + connecting to the <code class="literal">localhost</code> bind address, and it + will use whatever authentication procedure was configured for + connections by that user to that bind address. Note that the server will not + think the connection is SSL-encrypted, since in fact it is not + encrypted between the + <span class="application">SSH</span> server and the + <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> server. This should not pose any + extra security risk because they are on the same machine. + </p><p> + In order for the + tunnel setup to succeed you must be allowed to connect via + <code class="command">ssh</code> as <code class="literal">joe@foo.com</code>, just + as if you had attempted to use <code class="command">ssh</code> to create a + terminal session. + </p><p> + You could also have set up port forwarding as +</p><pre class="programlisting"> +ssh -L 63333:foo.com:5432 joe@foo.com +</pre><p> + but then the database server will see the connection as coming in + on its <code class="literal">foo.com</code> bind address, which is not opened by + the default setting <code class="literal">listen_addresses = + 'localhost'</code>. This is usually not what you want. + </p><p> + If you have to <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">hop</span>”</span> to the database server via some + login host, one possible setup could look like this: +</p><pre class="programlisting"> +ssh -L 63333:db.foo.com:5432 joe@shell.foo.com +</pre><p> + Note that this way the connection + from <code class="literal">shell.foo.com</code> + to <code class="literal">db.foo.com</code> will not be encrypted by the SSH + tunnel. + SSH offers quite a few configuration possibilities when the network + is restricted in various ways. Please refer to the SSH + documentation for details. + </p><div class="tip"><h3 class="title">Tip</h3><p> + Several other applications exist that can provide secure tunnels using + a procedure similar in concept to the one just described. + </p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gssapi-enc.html" title="19.10. 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