whizfoo » security http://www.whiz.se Personal homepage and blog of Sven Arvidsson Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:20:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 SSH as a proxy http://www.whiz.se/2008/06/05/ssh-as-a-proxy/ http://www.whiz.se/2008/06/05/ssh-as-a-proxy/#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:45:26 +0000 Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se/?p=141 I have yet to set up OpenVPN and making it work with NetworkManager (this is planned some time after I install FreeWRT on the router) so I have naturally been a bit hesitant to connect to unsecured wireless networks. It turns out there is an easy way to secure your connection with tools already installed, SSH:

Then I found that ssh has a really nifty -D option to implement a SOCKS5 proxy. Therefore all I needed to do was ssh -D localhost:8080 remote.box and then setup Firefox to use localhost:8080 as a SOCKS proxy server.

Thank you Ian Wienand for sharing this useful tip!

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