Re: feature request - automatic SSH tunnels

On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 11:30 -0700, Darren Duncan wrote:
> I have a feature request for pgAdmin that would help me and other users a lot,
> and I don't see it on your roadmap or TODO.
>
> This is to add to Server Registration extra fields for configuring an SSH tunnel
> so that users can use pgAdmin over an SSH tunnel without having to separately
> setup the tunnel outside pgAdmin.
>
> For example, currently users have to do something like this on the command-line
> when they want to use pgAdmin over a tunnel:
>
>    ssh -L 5423:localhost:5432 postgres@mydomain.com
>
> But ideally pgAdmin would set that up the tunnel automatically when you do a
> Connect.
>
> Even MySQL Workbench has supported this for a few years at least.
>
> How difficult would it be to add this feature, and is there any reason not to?
>
> Would it help if I monetarily sponsored an automatic SSH tunnel feature?
>
> I'm hoping this could make it into 1.18.0 at the latest, if not 1.16.x.
>

Surely not 1.16 as it's already out, and only bugfixes are done to this
release.

1.18, could be. I remember that one of the EDB's guy was working on
this. Not sure what the status of this patch is though.