tunnel from a computer to mine so for access to server via sftp-client

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run opensuse 13.1 :: and i have access to a server via sftp:

question: can a friend tunnel from another computer to mine so that he can use my sftp-client on my machine!?
is this possible!?

In other words
: we have a situation where I have a SSH/SFTP access from my workstation to a server
Now a friend - livin somewhere else should use this access - which only works from my machine:

Note the server is not (!!) directly accessable from his workstation.

What is needed: We need to have ssh access from his computer to mine - so that he can then ssh to the server in question.


How can I accomplish this?

idea: Why can we not just ssh from #1 to console on #2 then ssh from machine #2 to console 3 within the session?

hmm: this is called "leapfrogging"

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