ssh-ing through an authenticating proxy server

[Ian Malone]

Tony Crouch wrote:
> Hi All, 
> I am wanting to log-in remotely from my university campus to my home
> machine connected behind a router. In the previous thread, answered by
> Thad (thanks for this), I learnt that port-forwarded needs to be enabled
> on the router ... done :-)
> 
> Now, my only problem is how to use ssh is such a way that it will accept
> a username and password in order to authenticate myself to get through
> my universities proxy server.
> 
> I am guessing something of the like:
> 
> ssh --http-username=tony --http-password=***** tony at my-modem-ip-address
> 
> I had a look through the ssh man page but didn't see anything that stuck
> out. So my guess was then that a global proxy username and password file
> may need to be created ... or something of the like.
> 
> Was wondering if someone might be able to shed some light on this for me
> please.
> 
> Cheers, 
> Tony Crouch

I just got an email from Mathias De Belder suggesting using SSH's
ProxyCommand (man ssh_config) with a wrapper program called
Corkscrew, <url:http://www.agroman.net/corkscrew/>.

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imalone