1.) add an SSH tunnel instance on Preferences ->Tunnels page, user configurable. Ports don't matter 2.) assign that to a user 3.) connect with openssh tunnel mode no console ssh -v -N -L 8888:localhost:8080 testtunnel@192.168.3.102 -oPort=2222 where, replace ,as per your settings the IP and port 8888 is the local port number you will connect to with a browser http://127.0.0.1:8888/ localhost is the remote forward IP we tell the ssh (Crush server) to connect the tunneled port . It's a Crush loopback tunnel, we connect to the HTTP port 8080 on the same host 8080 is the remote port to tunnel to 192.168.3.102 -oPort=2222 is the Crush server's publicly accessible IP and SFTP port testtunnel is the tunnel user (not necessarily the same user you log in by, over tunneled webinterface)