# lstun -- lazy ssh tunnel
lstun is a simple utility to lazily (on demand) spawn a ssh tunnel to
a remote machine and optionally kill it after some time of inactivity.
The only dependency is libevent and openssh.
To compile it just run
$ ./configure
$ make
# make install # eventually
The build can be customized by passing arguments to the configure
script or by using a `configure.local` file; see `./configure -h` and
[`configure.local.example`](configure.local.example) for more
information.
The `configure` script can use pkg-config if available to find the
flags for libevent. To disable the usage of it, pass
`PKG_CONFIG=false` to the configure script.
For Linux users with libbsd installed, the configure script can be
instructed to use libbsd instead of the bundled compats as follows:
CFLAGS="$(pkg-config --cflags libbsd-overlay)" \
./configure LDFLAGS="$(pkg-config --libs libbsd-overlay)"
### Usage
```
usage: lstun [-dv] -B sshaddr -b addr [-t timeout] destination
```
Check out the [manpage](lstun.1) for the usage.
### Motivation
It was written to forward lazily all the traffic on the local port
2525 to a remote port 25, thus using ssh as some sort of
authentication.
The need for the "lazy" opening and closing of the tunnel is to avoid
wasting resources when not needed.