Actually you can write a nice little script that treats autossh like a daemon and restarts it if it crashes. I did something like that on Arch linux. Also it'

Actually you can write a nice little script that treats autossh like a daemon and restarts it if it crashes. I did something like that on Arch linux. Also it's probably a good idea to give it a user with limited permissions on the server it's connecting back to so if somebody finds it the can't just use it to hack your box.