workingdir

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Working Directory for SSHPiper

Working Dir is a /home-like directory. SSHPiperd read files from workingdir/[username]/ to know upstream's configuration.

e.g.

workingdir tree

.
├── github
│   └── sshpiper_upstream
└── linode
    └── sshpiper_upstream

when ssh sshpiper_host -l github, sshpiper reads workingdir/github/sshpiper_upstream and the connect to the upstream.

User files

These file MUST NOT be accessible to group or other. (chmod og-rwx filename)

• sshpiper_upstream

  • line starts with # are treated as comment
  • only the first not comment line will be parsed
  • if no port was given, 22 will be used as default
  • if user@ was defined, username to upstream will be the mapped one

# comment
[user@]upstream[:22]

e.g. 

git@github.com

google.com:12345

• authorized_keys

  OpenSSH format authorized_keys (see ~/.ssh/authorized_keys). Used for publickey sign again(see below).

• id_rsa

  RSA key for publickey sign again(see below).

• known_hosts

  when upstream-workingdir-stricthostkey is set, upstream server's public key must present in known_hosts