SSHTunnel

What is SSHTunnel ?

SSHTunnel is an OS X application that allows you to easily create SSH tunnels from your computer to a remote host (like a website) through a SSH server. This SSH tunnel can bypass the firewall rules in a secure way. So if you are at work, and you can't access YouTube, just create a SSH tunnel, and your ready to go!

And on the next version ?

The next version will be not a graphical and logical evolution of sessions. I will focus on SSH security, by adding a support of system Keychain to store passwords, and allow the keys creation and support for servers. This next release should be available very very soon (I've play around with OS X authentication server and I've already do the key management on a very old version of SSHTunnel). Stay tuned!

News

(12/11/2008) Hey, long time no see!

Just to tell to my dear users that I'm not dead. I'm working on the integration of the open source tool called proxytunnel, to be able to really bypass all kind of firewall. And it works! Stay tuned ;)

(23/08/2008) Big Update in progress

The released version 1.5, will be strange if you do not reset to default factory. To do this open SSHTunnel Preferences (Cmd + "," ) and then choose "Reset the factory presets" It will quit SSHTunnel. You just have to relaunch it.

(23/08/2008) Big Update in progress

As I said, here are the new version of SSHTunnel. See change log to know what's new. I think you should see it, because there were a lot of changes!

(22/08/2008) Big Update in progress

Time to change. The next version of SSHTunnel will have a lot of new features, like global proxification, ability to simply launch shell on the SSHServer, a task bar menu to control the application, a Time Machine like button to start sessions (useless so indispensable!), a smart new view to organize the sessions, ability to to autostart some sessions at launch. Here are some screenshots of the application. You can download the development version to try it if you know how to compile a software. Else be patient, it will coming soon!

(18/08/2008) SSHTunnel on Apple.com

You can now download and follow SSHTunnel from the Apple official website at the following address : http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/networking_security/sshtunnel.html.

(07/08/2008) SSHTunnel on Softpedia

SSHTunnel is on Sofpedia : http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Network-Admin/SSHTunnel.shtml.

Minimum requirements

To use SSHTunnel, you need at least :

Mac OS >= 10.5 ;
A valid internet connection ;
If you meet problems with incoming tunnels, you should deactivate your Mac OS Firewall.

Author note

Please remember that this program is a free software and comes with no guarantees. I'm alone to develop this application and this is not my main activity so please do not hesitate to report issues in the appropriate tabs.

Donation

If you like and if you're a rich man, you can make a donation : http://antoinemercadal.fr/antoinemercadal.fr/SSHTunnel.html

Change Log

What's up in v1.6 ?

(feature) Risinzing of the application is possible ;
(feature) Moving the preferences from new window to main window ;

What's up in v1.5 ?

(feature) NSOutlineView like iTunes to store the sessions and to sort them ;
(feature) Global proxyfication through SSH with auto activation of system's socks proxy ;
(feature) Definition of the system network service to use ;
(feature) Adding a sort of Time Machine like button to control sessions ;
(feature) Possibility start automatically sessions at application startup ;
(feature) It is now possible to reset application from its defaults settings ;
(feature) Possibility to activate or not Core Animation transition ;
(feature) You can also choose which transition you want to use ;
(feature) Adding a status bar icon with the most common control command ;
(feature) You can activate or not the status bar menu ;
(feature) It is possible to force SSHTunnel to use only SSH protocol version 2 ;
(feature) Ability to apply a server to all sessions ;
(Solving) Sometimes when application quit, sessions still remain alive ;
(Solving) When reset factory preset, the new datas was not every time loaded ;
(Solving) Adding tests that avoid sessions to start without all the needed informations ;
(Solving) A lot of silly other bugs ;

See all the change log