René is a french idiotic mole.

A mole digs tunnel.

Rened is a daemon to handle tunnels.

I wanted a simple way to handle many ssh tunnels from a single file/daemon. And rely only on paramiko.

On ubuntu/debian, I think the best option is to rely on apt-provided python packages :

sudo apt install python3-paramiko python3-click python3-colorlog

Then you can "autostart" it with your desktop session.

It will definitely work with pip and venvs, but will make the autostart things much sketchier.

pip install -r requirements.txt

rened.py [-v] config_file

• If config_file is omitted, it will try to open ~/.rened.json. Use the provided rened.conf.json as a template
• -v/--verbose will switch to debug mode, for a surprising volume of mildly interesting logs.

This script is based on this demo from paramiko.

https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/blob/master/demos/forward.py

• systemd user-script (so it start with your session)
• install script

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24pUKRQt7fk

(yes, it's this bad.)