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