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How to connect to Postgresql database with ssh-tunnel with client

I have setup ssh connexion to my droplet, I have root user and non-root with privilege user. All is working fine.

I have setup a postgresql database and create a db owned by the non-root user. If I’m login with this user, I can log to the database.

Now I want to use PgAdmin4 or DBeaver to access this db with a UI than with terminal. I want to use SSH Tunnel for security reason. But nothing I trying is working…

I setup my SSH Tunnel with

ssh -L 5432:127.0.0.1:5432 usename@my.ip.address.digital.ocean

Both pgadmin and dbeaver can’t login to the database.

Thanks :)

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Bobby Iliev
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• December 12, 2022

Hi there,

Indeed, it should work as follows:

ssh -L 5432:127.0.0.1:5432 user@your_ip_address

However, note that if you have Postgres running locally on your laptop and it is already listening on port 5432, then you should use a different local port, eg:

ssh -L 5433:127.0.0.1:5432 user@your_ip_address

The syntax itself is as follows:

ssh -L [local_addr:]local_port:remote_addr:remote_port [user@]sshd_addr

Hope that this helps!

Best,

Bobby

cy.hue80 • December 12, 2022

After some test and research, I try to change the port number from 5432 to 22 that is the port for SSH in the setting and it’s work !

Absolutely not easy to understand the field “port” in ssh is different than in general setting

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