On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 09:18:55AM -0400, Therese Trudeau enlightened us:
I can connect to the remote database via Linux desktop, it's just via an un encrypted connection through port 3306. For obvious reasons I don't want to do it that way.
My question is, is OpenOffice Calc able to connect to remote databases via SSH and or SCP? If so, do I need a plug in for that, or need to configure calc to do that in some way? How would I do this, or which plug in(s) do I need?
No, but what you could do is use an ssh tunnel to accomplish this. Something along the lines of "ssh -L 3307:database.example.net:3306 database.example.net"
This will tell your system to tunnel the local port 3307 through the database box, TO the database box on port 3306. From this point, after you connect via ssh with the above command, you can simply point your database software to the local 3307 port in plain text, and it'll travel over ssh to the remote box.
I've probably done a bad job explaining this, so I'll go get some more coffee.
Hehe THANKS Jim I need some too!
So when I "ssh -L 3307:database.example.net:3306", am I doing this via terminal prior to connecting with Calc (or base), then start up base and enter in just the regular database.example.net into the "Server URL" field in Clac or base?
Or do I need to enter "ssh -L 3307:database.example.net:3306" just once in to the "Server URL" FIeld from within OpenOffice Calc or VBase?
You should enter localhost:3307. That connects to the local end of your SSH tunnel.
Matt