What is the Putty equivalent command for Mac OS X?

Question

In my Windows system, I was able to create a tunnel by running the command below using Putty:

putty.exe -D 12345 -P 8888 localhost

I'm not used to Mac yet and I would like to try it out on Mac. Does anyone know the command to achieve same tunneling in Mac OS X or do I have to use a client?

Answer 1

putty's command-line options are (mostly, but not entirely) a clone of those that the openssh client uses, so the equivalent of your command line above would just be ssh -D 12345 -p 8888 localhost.

Read man ssh for the full details of the options.

Well. I don't know why you'd forward ports to localhost, but I'm sure that was just a demo ;)

Answer 2

MacOSX provide by default a command-line ssh client, just execute it from a terminal with:

$ ssh user@hostname

To check that options are the same that you are accustomed with PuTTY, read the ssh man reference with:

$ man ssh

Answer 3

Mac's ssh syntax (and for most other *nix commands) is not the same as in a Linux box. I think you could try ssh -D 12345 -p 8888 localhost, but I don't remember quite well. The best way is man ssh.

I usually make a config file (.ssh/config) with parameters so that you can simply type ssh bypassfw if you want to run that command.

Host bypassfw
HostName localhost
Port 8888
DynamicForward 12345