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Reverse SSH Tunnel

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  • K
    kapara
    last edited by Jun 29, 2017, 1:21 AM

    Is it possible to do a reverse SSH tunnel to allow management of the firewall when it is behing a natted device?  I can do openvpn and ipsec but this requires alot of IP managment and set up and all I want to be able to do is manage the firewall remotely.  Again behind NAT.

    https://openport.io/

    I was looking at this as an option to access all the firewalls but I would need a way to enable reverse SSH tunnel on the pfSense.

    Skype ID:  Marinhd

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      kapara
      last edited by Jun 29, 2017, 2:11 AM Jun 29, 2017, 1:53 AM

      Found this:  http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/reverse-ssh

      The site generates a public and private key but when I do this I get denied.

      https://sshreach.me

      Do I need to import something into pfsense or freebsd?

      ssh -v -fN -R 9000:localhost:10290 root@fw1.sshreach.me
      OpenSSH_7.2p2, OpenSSL 1.0.1s-freebsd  1 Mar 2016
      debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
      debug1: Connecting to fw1.sshreach.me [139.162.161.211] port 22.
      debug1: Connection established.
      debug1: permanently_set_uid: 0/0
      debug1: Fssh_key_load_public: No such file or directory
      debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
      debug1: Fssh_key_load_public: No such file or directory
      debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
      debug1: Fssh_key_load_public: No such file or directory
      debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
      debug1: Fssh_key_load_public: No such file or directory
      debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
      debug1: Fssh_key_load_public: No such file or directory
      debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
      debug1: Fssh_key_load_public: No such file or directory
      debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
      debug1: Fssh_key_load_public: No such file or directory
      debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1
      debug1: Fssh_key_load_public: No such file or directory
      debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1
      debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
      debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.2 FreeBSD-20160310
      debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_6.6
      debug1: match: OpenSSH_6.6 pat OpenSSH_6.5*,OpenSSH_6.6* compat 0x14000000
      debug1: Authenticating to fw1.sshreach.me:22 as 'root'
      debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
      debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
      debug1: kex: algorithm: ecdh-sha2-nistp256
      debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256
      debug1: kex: server->client cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit   ="">compression: none
      debug1: kex: client->server cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit   ="">compression: none
      debug1: sending SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_INIT
      debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
      debug1: Server host key: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 SHA256:nCeg0Bt8GiwhKOuEf4Q72pWxxjas                                                                                                                    EIbxm4yRhAqgkos
      DNS lookup error: general failure
      debug1: Host 'fw1.sshreach.me' is known and matches the ECDSA host key.
      debug1: Found key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts:1
      debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks
      debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
      debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
      debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks
      debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
      debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
      debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
      debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
      debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/id_rsa
      debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/id_dsa
      debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/id_ecdsa
      debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/id_ed25519
      debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
      Permission denied (publickey).</implicit ></implicit >

      Skype ID:  Marinhd

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      • J
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by Jun 29, 2017, 5:37 PM

        For that sort of thing there isn't any IP management to do in OpenVPN… You just want to hit the GUI/ssh then just connect to the OpenVPN tunnel network IP address, no need to setup full site-to-site tunnels.

        Only thing you'd have to manage is setting the tunnel network for the VPN, then check the openvpn status to see who lands where.

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          kapara
          last edited by Jul 6, 2017, 4:05 PM

          But is it possible to do a reverse ssh tunnel to be able to manage the firewall rather than using openvpn?

          Skype ID:  Marinhd

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