Command line hangs when trying to make ssh tunnel

Posted on June 14, 2021

By sayanc20002

I was following this tuitorial and was on step 3. Now as I try to make the ssh tunnel, my command line gets stuck when I enter the password. It doesn’t terminate or show any error but just gets stuck

I used ssh -L 59000:localhost:5901 -C -N -l sammy your_server_ip command from my local system(Windows). I replaced sammy by my non-root username and your_server_ip with the linux server ip address. It asks for my password, I provide it and then the command line gets stuck. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

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Bobby

June 14, 2021

Hi there,

I believe that this is the expected behavior. That way you open a tunnel which is available for your current session, then by pressing CTRL+C the tunnel will be terminated.

If you want to SSH to the host, you could omit the -C and the -N flags.

Hope that this helps. Regards, Bobby