PyCharm SSH tunneling via local ssh config (~/.ssh/config)

Question

I use ssh deployment on servers via ssh tunnels, and each of its has specific options and port forwarding placed in ~/.ssh/config.

PyCharm uses by default its own ssh client when using SFTP deploy. So, it doesn't work with these deployment servers. How I could force PyCharm to use my default system ssh client or force to use options from ~/.ssh/config file. Thanks.

PS: PyCharm version is 3.0.1

Answer 1

Provided PyCharm can be made to use port different than 22 (don't know that), you actually have two workarounds:

• Simple workaround

Use port forwarding on localhost:

http://www.debian-administration.org/article/449/SSH_dynamic_port_forwarding_with_SOCKS

..and either use -F specific_config for each tunnel, or use -o to specify relevant options (that you normally have in ~/.ssh/config on ssh commandline) directly. Of course, you have to tell PyCharm to connect to localhost:forwarded_port.

• Fancy/sophisticated workaround

Use dynamic port forwarding + tsocks, again described in:

http://www.debian-administration.org/article/449/SSH_dynamic_port_forwarding_with_SOCKS