what about socks support?

[douglas.manton at uk.ibm.com]

Michael,

It is quite simple to socksify OpenSSH using the NEC socks code from
http://www.socks.nec.com.  If you comile the socks library then you can
add the support to OpenSSH by:

    adding #include <socks.h> in front of the other includes in
sshconnect.c
    configuring with: --with-cflags="-DSOCKS" --with-libs="-lsocks5"

This will give you socks4 and socks5 support which you can define using
libsocks5.conf (see the NEC socks man pages).

An alternative socks implementation to use is Dante.  I have no experience
with that library but I have heard good things about it.

Hope this helps,
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Is there any plan to add socks 4 or socks 5 support to openssh like
the original ssh developed in finland??

Michael
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