SSH: Additional port forwarding possible for OpenAI codex?

[pbowyer]

I am trying to log into OpenAI's codex tool running inside my DDEV webserver. Unlike Claude and Gemini's CLI offerings, they only have a redirect flow, not a flow with a copy+paste code. This is known to create difficulties Source 1 Source 2.

The most reliable workaround is to forward port 1455 from the host to the container, like ssh -L 1455:localhost:1455 <your_username>@<your_server>. The ddev ssh command doesn't accept additional SSH flags, and ddev describe doesn't list a direct-to-container way to SSH (because we go via the ssh-agent I guess, but I am fuzzy beyond that).

Is there a way to get the port forwarding to work? It's only needed once, as afterwards the auth credentials are saved to file, and I will pop the file into my .ddev directory and load it each time.

[stasadev]

Hi @pbowyer,

I think here's what you want to run:

ddev exec ssh -L 1455:host.docker.internal:1455 <your_username>@<your_server>