Re: putty (was Re: vpn)

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Author: Mike Bydalek
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: putty (was Re: vpn)


Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> On 2/12/08, Charles Jones <> 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!" :)
>
> -jmz
>

If you're gonna use SOCKS, you might as well do it all. ;) This explains
a nifty option in Firefox
http://outflux.net/blog/archives/2006/12/07/paranoid-browsing-with-squid/

-Mike
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