what about socks support?

[Berend De Schouwer]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:16:31 douglas.manton at uk.ibm.com wrote:
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| Michael,
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| 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:
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|     adding #include <socks.h> in front of the other includes in
| sshconnect.c
|     configuring with: --with-cflags="-DSOCKS" --with-libs="-lsocks5"
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| This will give you socks4 and socks5 support which you can define using
| libsocks5.conf (see the NEC socks man pages).
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| An alternative socks implementation to use is Dante.  I have no
| experience
| with that library but I have heard good things about it.

Even easier: run
LDFLAGS=-ldsocks ./configure
and you are away :)

This basically just preloads libdsocks, which you can't do with
LD_LIBRARY_PRELOAD since ssh is suid'd.  If you can disable the suid
bit, you could run 'socksify ssh <hostname>'.

| Hope this helps,
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|   Doug Manton, AT&T EMEA Commercial Security Solutions
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|                  E:  demanton at att.com
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| "If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy"
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| Please respond to michael at bizsystems.com
| To:     openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
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| Subject:        what about socks support?
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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
| Michael at bizsystems.com
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Kind regards,				  
Berend                                  

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