How To:Set Up Amanda Communication Via SSH Tunnels

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Amanda 2.5.0

Amanda 2.5.0 provides ssh based authentication mechanism. To enable Amanda to use "ssh" for communication, "auth" parameter in amanda.conf should be set to "SSH".


ssh tunnels

If user wants to set up ssh connection between amanda server and a specific client or use ssh for older versions of Amanda, ssh tunnel between server and client has to be created.

Run the following command on the Amanda server, to create a ssh tunnel 

# ssh -L port:localhost:port dest
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