Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> On 2/12/08, Charles Jones <charles.jones@ciscolearning.org> wrote:
>   
>> Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>>     
>>>   why would you want to use putty on Linux?  just use the standard
>>> command line SSH.
>>>
>>>   putty is useful on Win32 though.
>>>
>>>       
>> I've used it before because putty can ssh through a SOCKS proxy
>> connection, and the standard ssh cannot.
>>     
>
>  Charles,
>
>  the fruit of a 2 minute google search:
>
>   http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2004/11/22/ssh_socks/
>
>  and yes "I'm Feeling Lucky!" :)
>   
Don't go to the casino just yet...you weren't so lucky ;-) Your link 
shows how to setup ssh *as* a SOCKS proxy (a nice feature which I use 
daily).

If you re-read what I said, I noted that openssh does not have support 
to ssh *through* a SOCKS proxy. putty ssh and putty scp (even the 
winblow version) have options to connect to a remote host via a socks 
proxy. This has proven handy in the past when I needed to quickly scp a 
file from my workstation to a remote network that I had SOCKS access to.

-Charles