Using SSH tunneling to access database through ssh

rh6 is the client, vmxdb04b is the database server,

firewall port open is incomming port 22 for vmxdb04b

donghua@rh6:~$ ssh -N -p 22 oracle@vmxdb04b -L 8888/vmxdb04b/1521

oracle@vmxdb04b's password:

-p 22 oracle@vmxdb04b: build ssh connection to vmxdb04b

-L 8888/vmxdb04b/1521 : Start a local listening port 8888 on rh6, and forward all the packet data to vmxdb04b:1521. Here the vmxdb04b can change to any host for forwarding purpose.

-N instructs OpenSSH to not execute a command on the remote system.

donghua@rh6:~$ netstat -na|more

Active Internet connections (servers and established)

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State

tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8307 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8888 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

donghua@rh6:~$ sqlplus donghua/donghua@localhost:8888/orcl

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.3.0 Production on Sat Oct 22 09:40:32 2011

Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Connected to:

Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production

With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

SQL> select username,program,machine,paddr from v$session where sid=userenv('SID');

USERNAME PROGRAM

------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------

MACHINE

----------------------------------------------------------------

PADDR

----------------

DONGHUA sqlplus@rh6 (TNS V1-V3)

rh6

00000000914A0B88