[tor-talk] Tor and SSH?

[Mirimir]

On 07/15/2014 03:04 AM, Bobby Brewster wrote:
> 
> -------------------------------------------- On Mon, 7/14/14, Mirimir
> <mirimir at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor and SSH? To:
> tor-talk at lists.torproject.org Date: Monday, July 14, 2014, 7:54 PM
> 
> On 07/14/2014 04:17 PM, grarpamp wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at
> 4:55 PM, Bobby Brewster
>> <bobbybrewster203 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>>> torsocks ssh username at domain.
>> 
>> example.com is the
> correct tld for documentation use.
>> 
>>> Is there any reason NOT to use
> torsocks?
>> 
>> Yes,
> because it is a library shim its behaviour is somewhat system
>> and change dependant. Similarly
> 'torsocks' and 'usewithtor' are large
>> shell scripts that are hard to cover
> variety cases. Alternative check
>> 
> 'ssh -o proxycommand socat ...'
> 
> Please say more about setting up the socat tunnel with Tor. The
> socat manpage is complex, and coverage in 
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/SupportPrograms is 
> somewhat confusing.
> 
> Agreed - I liked torsocks because it is so simple to use. Socat seems
> vastly more complex with multiple command line options
> (TCP4-LISTEN:,bind=,fork,reuseaddr for example). I would like to see
> a professionally written guide on how to use SSH with socat or al
> least some accurate instructions for the command line.
> 
> For example, in garamp's example above, what does 'proxycommand'
> actually represent when using Tor?

The socat manpage says that "ProxyCommand" is one of the options ("-o").

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