Using ssh as a proxy or encrypted tunnel to browse the web can sometimes be necessary:<\/p>\n
I use SSH for the security reasons. I want to make sure that my security and login information will remain secure:<\/p>\n
ssh -D 12345 myuser@remote_ssh_server<\/pre>\nReplace myuser with your user account and remote_ssh_server with the IP or Hostname of your server.<\/p>\n
The above command will do all, but if you want to add more options, you can add other options like:-<\/p>\n
\r\n-D 12345: This does the dynamic stuff and makes it behave as a SOCKS server.\r\n-f : This will fork the process into the background after you type your password (for Linux only, on windows skip that).\r\n-C : Turns on compression.\r\n-q : Quiet mode. Since this is just a tunnel we can make it quiet (for Linux only, on windows skip that).\r\n-N : Tells it no commands will be sent. (the -f will complain if we don\u2019t specify this)\r\n<\/pre>\nNext, set up your browser to use the proxy server. Most browsers include proxy support. For Firefox, go to Edit\u2192Preferences\u2192Advanced\u2192Network\u2192Settings, and specify that you want to use a Manual Proxy, localhost, port 12345<\/strong> and SOCKS v5 (although OpenSSH supports both versions 4 and 5).<\/p>\n
HTTP Proxy (The first input). Must be left blank and add this config to SOCKS only.<\/p>\n
Now your browser is using a secure tunnel to your remote SSH server, Enjoy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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