Scott Ehrlich wrote:
What is the recommended way to ssh through a proxy? I've been using putty, compiled from source, as it has a proxy option, but a native option would be very nice.
If I understand what you want to do, you can use the builtin ssh ProxyCommand
Let's say you want to connect from your home machine to various machines in the .imag.fr domain, going through sshgate.imag.fr (the only host in imag.fr that is accessible by ssh from the outside).
On the home client, make a file called config in your ~/.ssh/ dir.
Mine looks something like this:
[nico@localhost ~]$ cat ~/.ssh/config Host *.imag User nico ProxyCommand ssh nico@sshgate.imag.fr "nc $(basename %h .imag) %p"
Then I can type "ssh host1.imag", and it works. It's also fine with sftp, scp, and pretty much anything that runs over ssh. nc has to be installed on sshgate, but it most probably is (might be called netcat). You have to type 2 passwords unless you use ssh key authentication, which you should (at least between home and sshgate).
hope this helps. Nico TM