Using SSH over a Proxy

Written by BinnyVA on April 9, 2007 – 1:42 am -

Cockscrew

Back in the days when I was working in a web development company, I had to ssh into some sites for setting up crons, importing database dumps etc. But there was a problem - my system was behind a proxy. And SSH did not have an option to connect through a proxy.

To use ssh over a proxy connection, you need a software called Cocrkscrew. Download the source and compile/install it.

Installation

wget http://www.agroman.net/corkscrew/corkscrew-2.0.tar.gz
tar -xzf corkscrew-2.0.tar.gz
cd corkscrew-2.0
./configure
make
su
[Enter Password]
make install

Configuration

Open the file ~/.ssh/config

Add this line..

ProxyCommand /usr/local/bin/corkscrew <proxy_server_ip> <proxy_server_port> %h %p

Example…

ProxyCommand /usr/local/bin/corkscrew 192.168.1.15 80 %h %p

Here 192.168.1.15 is the proxy server and 80 is the port.

After this is done, just connect to the remote server using ssh.

ssh google.com


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6 Comments to “Using SSH over a Proxy”

  1. rohitj’s Blog » SSH over Proxy Says:

    [...] was a post on LinDesk about how to use SSH over proxy. Thats surely a big issue for people living in developing country. They have to work behind proxy. [...]

  2. Clemens Says:

    Thank you, works perfect.

    Note: If the proxy requires authentication, you have to create a file with the content
    :

    Make this file readable only by yourself by
    chmod a-r
    chmod u+r

    and then alter the line in ~/.ssh/config to
    ProxyCommand /usr/local/bin/corkscrew 192.168.1.15 80 %h %p

    (From the corkscrew man page)

  3. Shailendra Says:

    Great!!!

    Worked perfect.

  4. Jeremy Says:

    Thanks, worked perfectly!

  5. Thomas Says:

    I can’t get it to work. I’m a nub when it comes to using CMD. I can’t get the kode to work. please help me:D

  6. Chris Says:

    Can you say… awesome!

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