Authentication

Pinggy provide mechanism to authenticate visitor connection using following basic authentication or key authention or both.

Basic Authentication

With basic authentication, browser would prompt visitor to insert client selected username:password as follows:

Client can enable basic authentication as follows:

ssh -R0:localhost:<localport> -t a.pinggy.io b:username:password

ssh -R0:localhost:<localport> -t <token>@a.pinggy.io b:username:password

One can add multiple username:password combination as follows:

ssh -R0:localhost:<localport> -t a.pinggy.io b:username1:password1 b:username2:password2

ssh -R0:localhost:<localport> -t <token>@a.pinggy.io b:username1:password1 b:username2:password2

Key Authentication

Key authentication is a mechanism where visitor provides a Authorisation header with value Bearer <key> with each and every request. Pinggy have option to set a set of keys during tunnel creation.

Start tunnel with key authentication as follows

ssh -R0:localhost:<localport> -t a.pinggy.io k:key

ssh -R0:localhost:<localport> -t <token>@a.pinggy.io k:key

Like basic authentication, one can set multiple keys as well.

ssh -R0:localhost:<localport> -t a.pinggy.io k:key1 k:key2

ssh -R0:localhost:<localport> -t <token>@a.pinggy.io k:key k:key2