>> ssh -f root@gateway "ssh root@xxxxxxxxxxxx" > Maybe the box is properly setup and does not allow any ssh login by > root. If you have a user account login and then su - to root. I can login step by step: ssh root@gateway and then: ssh root@xxxxxxxxxxxx with no problem, but I want to have it as one command, so I can but it as a menu item in IceWM: prog "FS - ssh" xterm xterm -T "FS" -e ssh -C -f root@gateway \ "ssh root@xxxxxxxxxxxx" and with one click to be in a shell of a computer in behind the gateway (LAN) with is a file serwer. -- AIKIDO TANREN DOJO - Poland - Warsaw - Mokotow - Ursynow - Natolin info: http://www.tanren.pl/ phone: +48506613147 email: dojo@xxxxxxxxx
