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Announcing printerd

Posted May 24, 2012 0:28 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Announcing printerd by krake
Parent article: Announcing printerd

You can't forward AF_UNIX sockets with OpenSSH generally :( like I said, doing this properly requires changes to OpenSSH too.

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Announcing printerd

Posted May 24, 2012 9:31 UTC (Thu) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link]

Perhaps one could use socat.

Announcing printerd

Posted May 28, 2012 13:01 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Probably. After all, socat can do anything. Downside: reading the manual requires dark rites first to prevent your brain dribbling out of your ears. It's the Emacs of netcats.

forwarding unix-domain sockets over ssh [was: Announcing printerd]

Posted May 30, 2012 1:35 UTC (Wed) by dkg (subscriber, #55359) [Link]

Yes, you can certainly use socat with ssh to forward UNIX-domain sockets.