Port forwarding / tunnelling with -fN doesn't go into the background

[ghost]

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"OpenSSH for Windows" version 0.0.24.0

Client OperatingSystem Windows 10 Pro 1703

What is failing ssh -fN -L2222:somehost:22 someotherhost should go into the background while the tunnel remains open

The tunnel works, but the command ties up the terminal - it doesn't go into the background

[bagajjal]

There is no concept of running background console jobs in Windows??

[manojampalam]

AFAIK no. You may use start ssh .... to achieve something close.

[Hashbrown777]

I don't know why for Windows openssh-portable doesn't support spawning the process and detaching from the console after credentials have been accepted, but if anyone desperately needs this I have a work around.

I've implemented a way to do it in this short pwsh script that you can dot-source, it works by spawning a Process which successfully establishes a connection and backgrounds itself, but there's no nohup equivalent if you're planning on closing the terminal after.

[alex180500]

Are there news for this? I'm just using wsl for this reason for now to connect to hpc