mole v2.0 releases: cli app to create ssh tunnels

by do son · Published June 24, 2019 · Updated September 29, 2021

Mole is a cli application to create ssh tunnels, forwarding a local port to a remote address through an ssh server.

Features

Auto local address selection: find a port available and start listening to it, so the -local flag doesn’t need to be given every time you run the app.
Aliases: save your tunnel settings under an alias, so it can be reused later.
Leverage the SSH Config File: use some options (e.g. username, identity key and port), specified in $HOME/.ssh/config whenever possible, so there is no need to have the same SSH server configuration in multiple places.

Use Cases

Access a computer or service behind a firewall

Mole can help you to access computers and services outside the perimeter network that are blocked by a firewall, as long as the user has ssh access to a computer with access to the target computer or service.
Access a service that is listening only on a local address

Changelog v2.0

Added

Add CHANGELOG.md file to track changes on releases [89290e8]
Add new command to show running configuration of any mole instance [#161]
Stop foreground instances using the stop command [#158]
Add new command, misc rpc to explicitly execute procedures on running instances of mole [#148]
rpc server (disabled by default) [#146]
New flag to pass SSH config file path [#136]
Add new command: show logs [#132]

Changed

Change output of “show alias” to toml format. [#144]
Skip private key authentication in case of error (encrypted without passphrase, wrong format, …) [#159] [#169]
Close reader/writer on ssh channel when finished or error occurs [#159]
Don’t fail but create new empty config when no config (empty string) file was used [#159]
Fix start alias flag parsing [#157]

Install

bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davrodpin/mole/master/tools/install.sh)

Use

Tutorial