Re: SSH Connecting through Firewall

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_dodgy.net.au)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: 12 Jan 2005 13:39:03 GMT

In article <cs32fe$ecf$1@sagnix.uni-muenster.de>,
Andreas Jaeger <adolar@uni-muenster.de> wrote:
>Andrew Schulman wrote:
>
>> Any chance of convincing the firewall admins to allow outgoing SSH
>> sessions? After all, this is a pretty secure and common protocol.
>
>No way. Those guys are paranoid.

You might want to check if what you're doing is prohibitted by your
security policy.

>But I do not know how to tell the SSH
>client to use HTTPS or FTP proxy. There is no such option in the OpenSSH
>client, as far as I know.

OpenSSH doesn't speak those application protocols itself, it uses an
external program for that (via the "ProxyCommand" option). I use
this one for HTTPS (and SOCKS):
http://www.taiyo.co.jp/~gotoh/ssh/connect.html 

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