How do I kill a backgrounded/detached ssh session?

Question

I am using the program synergy together with an ssh tunnel

It works, i just have to open an console an type these two commands:

ssh -f -N -L localhos         


        

Answer 1

You can drop the -f, which makes it run it in background, then run it with eval and force it to the background yourself.

You can then grab the pid. Make sure to put the & within the eval statement.

eval "ssh -N -L localhost:12345:otherHost:12345 otherUser@OtherHost & " 
tunnelpid=$!