ssh through proxy (was: prng_cmds/init_rng() question/patch)

[Lewandowsky, Matt]

(Sorry for being so OT, but I'm currently experiencing this inconvenience
and want to be more productive than doing a CVS update at home and getting
to the office.)

So, what you are suggesting is that I setup a squid proxy on a box outside
the firewall on port 80 and use MindTerm to connect via that? Until this
past weekend when the network was "redone", we had a proxy we could access
internally and this is how I got out before. But now, we have a "direct
connection" which I had no say in... Oh, well...

If that isn't what you were suggesting, could you elaborate?

Thanks,

--Matt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mats Andersson [mailto:mats at mindbright.se]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 12:30 AM
> To: Lewandowsky, Matt
> Cc: 'Gert Doering'; J.S.Peatfield at damtp.cam.ac.uk; dwd at bell-labs.com;
> openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
> Subject: ssh through proxy (was: prng_cmds/init_rng() question/patch)
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for pushing this even further off topic but since 
> someone mentioned
> MindTerm I couldn't resist answering :-)
> 
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Lewandowsky, Matt wrote:
> > Is there anything like this atm which uses the web server 
> as a proxy? For
> > example, say that I'm behind a firewall at work, and the 
> "security policy"
> > disallows ssh. 
> 
> MindTerm (and I'm sure other clients too) have the feature to connect
> "out" through either a http proxy or a socks4/5 proxy. The case you
> describe probably includes a http proxy to pass out through 
> (which most
> often IS allowed by policies...) in which case you in most 
> cases is able
> to "fool" the http proxy in letting you out through https 
> (often meaning
> that you have to put your sshd listening on 443 on the other end).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> /Mats
>