NQM SSH Tunnel

In order to enable NQM SSH tunnel as a service, you can run the following:

Rootless SSH tunnel

You can run SSH tunnel without sudo by using a user systemd instance.

First, make sure it's enabled with:

# start user-systemd on boot, not login
sudo loginctl enable-linger "$(whoami)"

Then, you can start ssh-legion without sudo using:

systemctl --user start ssh-legion.service
# systemctl --user enable ssh-legion.service to auto run on startup

If you want to start an ssh-legion to another server, make sure to add the server to /etc/ssh-legion/ssh-legion.config or ~/.ssh/config, then run

systemctl --user start ssh-legion@the-name-of-your-server-here.service

If you ever want to view the logs of the reverse SSH service, you can do this via:

journalctl --user -u ssh-legion.service

journalctl has the -f flag to watch the live logs of a service, that may be useful in debugging:

journalctl --user -fu ssh-legion.service

You can disable (prevent the service from launching on startup), or stop the service by using systemctl --user. Example:

To stop the service

systemctl --user stop ssh-legion.service

To disable the service from running on the next boot

systemctl --user disable ssh-legion.service