Re: [CentOS] run firefox via an ssh tunnel

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 03:21:02PM -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote:

What part? For the first part, either define 'DynamicForward 8000' in a Host section in ~/.ssh/config, or run 'ssh -D 8000 hostname' to set it with command line options. Then just set your SOCKS5 proxy settings in Firefox to localhost:8000. (I'm just using port 8000 as an example here, it can be any unused port above 1024 for regular users.)

If you need a full tunnel (and not just HTTP) and don't have a VPN server, but you do have an SSH connection, I heartily recommend the tool 'sshuttle' (https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle, in EPEL). It requires root locally but not on the remote side.

Then you can just use firefox without messing with proxy settings or anything.